Pharmacology 3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Overeating, Acamprosate, Lipid Bilayer
25 Apr 2018
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Catch all term for inability to have normal neural function. Lack of executive function, memory, have psychotic events. Can"t put together coherent sentences or find words. In the united states up to 18 million people over the next 50 years will have alzheimer"s. Cost estimates range up to billion/year in the us. Lost of motor neuron in the spinal cord. Can"t size up a situation in an appropriate manner. Make sense, little of the hippocampus is involved. Can be a part of a movement disorder or an aphasic disorder. Overeating, binding food fats, oral exploration behaviour (probing mouth with fingers) Grasping and using object in their visual field. Central target: ach releasing cells in the brain. Goal: slow offset loss of neuron function. So far, the have no effect on loss of cells. More ach in the synapses, palliative effects. No improvement in outcome after the drug-use period.
