Is there any correlation between mental stress and acetylcholine signalling?
Check this paper out. The authors may be here on RG:
Neuron. 2012 Oct 4; 76(1): 116–129.
Acetylcholine as a neuromodulator: cholinergic signaling shapes nervous system function and behavior
Marina R. Picciotto, Michael J. Higley, and Yann S. Mineur
Acetylcholine is released by nerve cells in the brain when people or animals are under mild stress or concentrating on learning something new. This finding may help explain how acute stress could lead to chronic depression, irritability, memory loss, and other symptoms reported by veterans of the Persian Gulf War. I found some article in Nature, from 1998. After that most of the fundamental research moved on the hypocampal ares . You can also check out this paper on the subject: http://learnmem.cshlp.org/content/11/1/21.full.html. Anyway interesting topic. Best regards
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