| Literature DB >> 3114812 |
L Gustafson, L Edvinsson, N Dahlgren, B Hagberg, J Risberg, I Rosén, H Fernö.
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Ten patients with Alzheimer's disease were treated with intravenous infusion of physostigmine for 2 h. The acute effects on cognitive function, regional cerebral blood flow, and EEG were compared to placebo (isotonic glucose) using a double-blind cross-over design. Physostigmine causes a limited improvement of psychomotor performance and EEG and an increase of blood flow in the most severely affected cortical areas, predominantly in an early phase of Alzheimer's disease.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3114812 DOI: 10.1007/bf02439583
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychopharmacology (Berl) ISSN: 0033-3158 Impact factor: 4.530