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=== 2023: [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1252705/full Editorial: Nicotine and its derivatives in disorders of cognition: a challenging new topic of study] === | |||
* Front. Neurosci., 18 July 2023 Sec. Neurodegeneration Volume 17 - 2023 | <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1252705</nowiki> | |||
* Albert Gjedde, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark | |||
* Nicotine is a compound of considerable interest to neuroscience, in contexts of physiology as well as pathology of brain functions related to neurotransmitter mechanisms. Nicotine is an alkaloid that exists naturally in plants such as tomatoes and potatoes, with the highest levels in the tobacco plant. | |||
* In mammalian brains, nicotine has multiple actions that appear to be accidents of evolution, as no specific relation springs to mind between the functions of nicotine in plants and animals. | |||
* The following discussion expands upon the three topics of biology, therapy, and possible prevention, as related to cognition, in the three reviews and the three original studies included in the collection. | |||
** Conclusion: Questions remain of how nicotine treatment in normal aging should proceed, including length of treatment, dose of nicotine, handling of smokers, effects of AD risk factors, and many others. While data from studies of psychiatric and memory-impaired subjects indicate that nicotine may relieve cognitive symptoms, it is mandatory to test the benefits of nicotine in normal aging in order to fill gaps in the literature and to verify the extent to which nicotine is useful as a pharmacologic agent that prevents pathological aging. | |||
=== 2023: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36736944/ Nicotine's effect on cognition, a friend or foe?] === | === 2023: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36736944/ Nicotine's effect on cognition, a friend or foe?] === | ||