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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors may improve myelin integrity

Bartzokis, George·2007·Biological Psychiatry

Abstract

Recent clinical trials have revealed that cholinergic treatments are efficacious in a wide spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders that span the entire human lifespan and include disorders without cholinergic deficits. Furthermore, some clinical and epidemiological data suggest that cholinergic treatments have disease modifying/preventive effects. It is proposed that these observations can be usefully understood in a myelin-centered model of the human brain. The model proposes that the human brain's extensive myelination is the central evolutionary change that defines our uniqueness as a species and our unique vulnerability to highly prevalent neuropsychiatric disorders. Within the framework of this model the clinical, biochemical, and epidemiologic data can be reinterpreted to suggest that nonsynaptic effects of cholinergic treatments on the process of myelination and myelin repair contributes to their mechanism of action and especially to their disease modifying/preventive effects. The ability to test the model in human populations with safe and noninvasive imaging technologies makes it possible to undertake novel clinical trial efforts directed at primary prevention of some of the most prevalent and devastating of human disorders.

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Authors
Bartzokis, G.
Affiliations
University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Corresponding author
Bartzokis, George
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-08
Volume
62
Issue
4
Pages
294-301
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1992127864
Cited by
41
References
127
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 8
FWCI
0.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Aging (R01AG027342, P50AG016570, AG 16570)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH0266029)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Keywords
acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, myelin integrity, myelination, remyelination, disease-modifying effects, primary prevention, neuropsychiatric disorders, cholinergic deficit
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain, Cholinergic Fibers, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Humans, Models, Neurological, Myelin Sheath, Neuropsychology

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