Brain Cholinergic System in Health and Disease

The cholinergic system has been recognized as playing an important role not only in several forms of dementia besides Alzheimer's Disease but also in other CNS degenerative and psychiatric disorders. Following on from the success of two previous publications in the cholinergic field - Cholinesterases and Their Inhibitors and Butyrylcholinesterase: Its Function and Inhibitors - Doctor Ezio Giacobini and Professor Giancarlo Pepeu have prepared this comprehensive and timely volume which will be useful to both clinical and pre-clinical specialists including neurologists psychiatrists neuropsychologists neuropharmacologists and neurophysiologists molecular neurobiologists and neurobiologists in general.