Translations:Nicotine therapeutic benefits/100/en

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  • Nicotine improves attention in a wide variety of tasks in healthy volunteers.
  • Nicotine improves immediate and longer term memory in healthy volunteers.
  • Nicotine improves attention in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease.
  • While some of the memory effects of nicotine may be due to enhanced attention, others seem to be the result of improved consolidation as shown by post-trial dosing.
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  • Citation: Warburton DM. Nicotine as a cognitive enhancer. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 1992 Mar;16(2):181-91. doi: 10.1016/0278-5846(92)90069-q. PMID: 1579636.
  • Keywords: acetylcholine, Alzheimer's Disease, attention, cholinergic, memory, nicotine, scopolamine.