Medications influencing central cholinergic pathways affect fixation stability, saccadic response time and associated eye movement dynamics during a temporally-cued visual reaction time task
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- 作者：Preshanta Naicker ; Shailendra Anoopkumar-Dukie ; Gary D. Grant…
- 关键词：Saccadic response time ; Temporally informative cue ; Temporally uninformative cue ; Anticholinergic ; Eye movement dynamics ; Fixation stability
- 刊名：Psychopharmacology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：234
- 期：4
- 页码：671-680
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- 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
- 刊物主题：Neurosciences; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Psychiatry;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1432-2072
- 卷排序：234
文摘
RationaleAnticholinergic medications largely exert their effects due to actions on the muscarinic receptor, which mediates the functions of acetylcholine in the peripheral and central nervous systems. In the central nervous system, acetylcholine plays an important role in the modulation of movement.