What is acetylcholine?

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By Dr. Bruce Miller Dr. Bruce Miller, M.D. is a behavioral neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco studying the relationship between the More...

" I think we have learned that low acetylcholine in the brain is a very important factor. So if your brain acetylcholine goes down, which it does profoundly in the Parkinsonian dementias, you have a tendency to see things that aren’t there. Acetylcholine is a chemical that helps your brain to focus. And I think when it’s not working well, all sorts of things flood into your brain. You have trouble processing them. You have trouble knowing what’s real and what is not. "

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  1. I’m 77, surprisingly agile, fit, all that, late bloomer in some ways, just (!) opening new vistas in life when Parkinson’s, not Alz, ambushes me. The agony! The frustration! Musician, construction guy, wrote one book +++ reviewed by Kirkus, company called Zhittya has been testing a Parkinson’s retardant and partial cure for nerarly a decade, FDA approval is grindingly slow, we P sufferers need a hurry-up pressure group like the AIDS people had. We watch ourselves deteriorate while FDA is testing for hi-dose toxicity. Suddenly I have so much to contribute and it’s all being taken away.

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