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[InquilineKea]

http://www.telegraph.../sciread116.xml

so do acetylcholine-boosters improve your ability to read through a page w/o attention lapses? I have a major problem with attention lapses myself..

[Ben]

http://www.telegraph.../sciread116.xml

so do acetylcholine-boosters improve your ability to read through a page w/o attention lapses? I have a major problem with attention lapses myself..

Interesting I have only recently started taking CDP-Choline and I was remarking to myself the other day that this is exactly what it must be helping me with (being able to read text without concentration lapses).

[Rags847]

http://www.telegraph.../sciread116.xml

so do acetylcholine-boosters improve your ability to read through a page w/o attention lapses? I have a major problem with attention lapses myself..

Interesting I have only recently started taking CDP-Choline and I was remarking to myself the other day that this is exactly what it must be helping me with (being able to read text without concentration lapses).

Ha! That is a funny article. It acts as if this is a new scientific revelation. Acetylcholine.

From Wiki:
"Acetylcholine (ACh) was first identified in 1914 by Henry Hallett Dale for its actions on heart tissue. It was confirmed as a neurotransmitter by Otto Loewi who initially gave it the name vagusstoff because it was released from the vagus nerve. Both received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work. Acetylcholine was also the first neurotransmitter to be identified."

"Plasticity
ACh is involved with synaptic plasticity, specifically in learning and short-term memory.

Acetylcholine has been shown to enhance the amplitude of synaptic potentials following long-term potentiation in many regions, including the dentate gyrus, CA1, piriform cortex, and neocortex. This effect most likely occurs either through enhancing currents through NMDA receptors or indirectly by suppressing adaptation. The suppression of adaptation has been shown in brain slices of regions CA1, cingulate cortex, and piriform cortex, as well as in vivo in cat somatosensory and motor cortex by decreasing the conductance of voltage-dependent M currents and Ca²⁺-dependent K⁺ currents."


Hey, UK Telegraph, I just discovered that my thoughts probably reside in my head. There might be a brain in there. More research is needed, but write up an article on me and my new finding!

Edited by Rags847, 19 July 2008 - 06:32 AM.

[huh1234]

http://www.imminst.o...age-t23214.html

So apparently it's the brain that helps us think. My thinking is a bit off actually.

[Ben]

wtf are you guys talking about?

[meursault]

Rags is just being mad hilarious, so, I think he wins.