Abstract

Neurochemical and pharmacological studies establish a rationale for clinical trials of drugs that increase central cholinergic activity in patients with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, and in normal elderly people with an age-related loss in memory functioning. The major goal of the project is to test potential cholinomimetic compounds in patients with Alzheimer's disease, normal elderly people with an age-related memory loss and in normal young subjects, to determine the ability of these drugs to enhance memory functioning. Various cholinergic agents with different mechanisms of action will be tested and compared in the same patients to determine their relative abilities to imprve the ability of patients and subjects to learn new information. These drugs include, precursors to acetylcholine, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and muscarinic receptor agonists. In all instances broad dose ranging studies are a prerequisite to subsequent studies. As these sudies are being conducted, an attempt will be made to determine if the cholinergic deficit that exists in Alzheimer's disease, and exists to a lesser extent in normal elderly people, can be detected in vivo by measurements of cerebrospinal fluid or neuroendocrine parameters.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01AG002219-06
Application #
3090619
Study Section
Aging Review Committee (AGE)
Project Start
1980-04-01
Project End
1988-03-31
Budget Start
1985-04-01
Budget End
1987-03-31
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
1985
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10029

  Publications

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Gusev, Alexander; Mancuso, Nicholas; Won, Hyejung et al. (2018) Transcriptome-wide association study of schizophrenia and chromatin activity yields mechanistic disease insights. Nat Genet 50:538-548
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Hauberg, Mads E; Fullard, John F; Zhu, Lingxue et al. (2018) Differential activity of transcribed enhancers in the prefrontal cortex of 537 cases with schizophrenia and controls. Mol Psychiatry :
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Dobbyn, Amanda; Huckins, Laura M; Boocock, James et al. (2018) Landscape of Conditional eQTL in Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Co-localization with Schizophrenia GWAS. Am J Hum Genet 102:1169-1184
Gandal, Michael J; Haney, Jillian R; Parikshak, Neelroop N et al. (2018) Shared molecular neuropathology across major psychiatric disorders parallels polygenic overlap. Science 359:693-697

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