Cholinergic double duty: cue detection and attentional control

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Prefrontal Acetylcholine Release Controls Cue Detection on Multiple Timescales

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Behavioral vigilance following infusions of 192 IgG-saporin into the basal forebrain: Selectivity of the behavioral impairment and relation to cortical AChE-positive fiber density.

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History of falls in Parkinson disease is associated with reduced cholinergic activity

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Central Cholinergic Neurons Are Rapidly Recruited by Reinforcement Feedback

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Behavioral vigilance in rats: task validation and effects of age, amphetamine, and benzodiazepine receptor ligands

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Attentional functions of cortical cholinergic inputs: What does it mean for learning and memory?

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Nicotine Induces Glutamate Release from Thalamocortical Terminals in Prefrontal Cortex

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An acetylcholine-activated microcircuit drives temporal dynamics of cortical activity

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Cortical cholinergic signaling controls the detection of cues

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Heterogeneity of Cholinergic Denervation in Parkinson's Disease without Dementia

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Not “just” a coincidence: Frontal‐striatal interactions in working memory and interval timing

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Cortical acetylcholine and processing capacity: effects of cortical cholinergic deafferentation on crossmodal divided attention in rats

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Enhancement of Attentional Performance by Selective Stimulation of α4β2* nAChRs: Underlying Cholinergic Mechanisms

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Enhanced Control of Attention by Stimulating Mesolimbic-Corticopetal Cholinergic Circuitry

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Acetylcholine Release in Prefrontal Cortex Promotes Gamma Oscillations and Theta–Gamma Coupling during Cue Detection

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Augmented Prefrontal Acetylcholine Release during Challenged Attentional Performance

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Cholinergic Control over Attention in Rats Prone to Attribute Incentive Salience to Reward Cues

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Habitual versus goal-driven attention

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Prefrontal β2 Subunit-Containing and α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Differentially Control Glutamatergic and Cholinergic Signaling

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Pathological False Alarm Rates Following Damage to the Left Frontal Cortex

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Glutamatergic Contributions to Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Agonist-Evoked Cholinergic Transients in the Prefrontal Cortex

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Prefrontal Cholinergic Mechanisms Instigating Shifts from Monitoring for Cues to Cue-Guided Performance: Converging Electrochemical and fMRI Evidence from Rats and Humans

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Rapid assessment of <i>in vivo</i> cholinergic transmission by amperometric detection of changes in extracellular choline levels

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Where attention falls: Increased risk of falls from the converging impact of cortical cholinergic and midbrain dopamine loss on striatal function

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Challenges to attention: A continuous arterial spin labeling (ASL) study of the effects of distraction on sustained attention

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Rats and humans paying attention: Cross-species task development for translational research.

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Modeling Fall Propensity in Parkinson's Disease: Deficits in the Attentional Control of Complex Movements in Rats with Cortical-Cholinergic and Striatal–Dopaminergic Deafferentation

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M1-positive allosteric modulators lacking agonist activity provide the optimal profile for enhancing cognition

Moran, S. P., Dickerson, J. W., Cho, H. P., Xiang, Z., Maksymetz, J., Remke, D. H., Lv, X., Doyle, C. A., Rajan, D. H., Niswender, C. M., et al. (2018) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/s41386-018-0033-9 · Cited by 79 · see citing works

Cortical cholinergic inputs mediate processing capacity: effects of 192 IgG-saporin-induced lesions on olfactory span performance

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What do phasic cholinergic signals do?

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Increased Capacity and Density of Choline Transporters Situated in Synaptic Membranes of the Right Medial Prefrontal Cortex of Attentional Task-Performing Rats

Apparsundaram, S., Martínez, V., Parikh, V., Kozak, R., & Sarter, M. F. (2005) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0205-05.2005 · Cited by 66 · see citing works

Disposed to Distraction: Genetic Variation in the Cholinergic System Influences Distractibility But Not Time-on-Task Effects

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Cholinergic Enhancement Increases the Effects of Voluntary Attention but Does Not Affect Involuntary Attention

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Cholinergic, But Not Dopaminergic or Noradrenergic, Enhancement Sharpens Visual Spatial Perception in Humans

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Age- and Dementia-Associated Impairments in Divided Attention: Psychological Constructs, Animal Models, and Underlying Neuronal Mechanisms

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A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Study of α4β2 Agonist ABT-894 in Adults with ADHD

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Cholinergic capacity mediates prefrontal engagement during challenges to attention: evidence from imaging genetics

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Cholinergic genetics of visual attention: Human and mouse choline transporter capacity variants influence distractibility

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Thalamic cholinergic innervation makes a specific bottom-up contribution to signal detection: Evidence from Parkinson’s disease patients with defined cholinergic losses

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Distinct Frontoparietal Networks Underlying Attentional Effort and Cognitive Control

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Cholinergic Deafferentation of the Neocortex Using 192 IgG-Saporin Impairs Feature Binding In Rats

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The cortical cholinergic system contributes to the top-down control of distraction: Evidence from patients with Parkinson's disease

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Cortical cholinergic inputs mediate processing capacity: effects of 192 IgG‐saporin‐induced lesions on olfactory span performance

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Sustained attention in mice: Expanding the translational utility of the SAT by incorporating the Michigan Controlled Access Response Port (MICARP)

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Lateralized Attentional Functions of Cortical Cholinergic Inputs.

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Unresponsive Choline Transporter as a Trait Neuromarker and a Causal Mediator of Bottom-Up Attentional Biases

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Attention and the Cholinergic System: Relevance to Schizophrenia

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Time to Pay Attention: Attentional Performance Time-Stamped Prefrontal Cholinergic Activation, Diurnality, and Performance

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A normalization model suggests that attention changes the weighting of inputs between visual areas

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Behavioral-cognitive targets for cholinergic enhancement

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Cholinergic Contributions to Supramodal Attentional Processes in Rats

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Addiction vulnerability trait impacts complex movement control: Evidence from sign-trackers

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How do our brain hemispheres cooperate to avoid false memories?

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Understanding Addiction Using Animal Models

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Basal forebrain cholinergic signalling: development, connectivity and roles in cognition

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Spatiotemporally heterogeneous coordination of cholinergic and neocortical activity

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Autonomic nervous system dysfunction in schizophrenia: impact on cognitive and metabolic health

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Noradrenergic and cholinergic systems take centre stage in neuropsychiatric diseases of ageing

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Neurochemistry of Visual Attention

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Cholinergic systems, attentional-motor integration, and cognitive control in Parkinson's disease

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The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex

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Cholinergic Signaling Dynamics and Cognitive Control of Attention

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Progression of regional cortical cholinergic denervation in Parkinson’s disease

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Cholinergic system correlates of postural control changes in Parkinson’s disease freezers

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Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease: spotlight on central cholinergic dysfunction

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Chrna5 is Essential for a Rapid and Protected Response to Optogenetic Release of Endogenous Acetylcholine in Prefrontal Cortex

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Rescuing the attentional performance of rats with cholinergic losses by the M1 positive allosteric modulator TAK-071

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The Impact of Anticholinergic Burden on Functional Capacity in Persons With Schizophrenia Across the Adult Life Span

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Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons Selectively Drive Coordinated Motor Learning in Mice

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The pulse: transient fMRI signal increases in subcortical arousal systems during transitions in attention

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M 1 -selective muscarinic allosteric modulation enhances cognitive flexibility and effective salience in nonhuman primates

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Semantic processing and neurobiology in Alzheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Serum unsaturated phosphatidylcholines predict longitudinal basal forebrain degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease

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Hydromethylthionine enhancement of central cholinergic signalling is blocked by rivastigmine and memantine

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Acetylcholine in action

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Ketamine-Induced Alteration of Working Memory Utility during Oculomotor Foraging Task in Monkeys

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Cholinergic System Changes in Dopa‐Unresponsive Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

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Vigilance, arousal, and acetylcholine: Optimal control of attention in a simple detection task

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Whole-brain mapping of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons reveals a long-range reciprocal input-output loop between distinct subtypes

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Distributed and dynamical communication: a mechanism for flexible cortico-cortical interactions and its functional roles in visual attention

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Dynamic balance and gait impairments in Parkinson’s disease: novel cholinergic patterns

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Enhanced prefrontal nicotinic signaling as evidence of active compensation in Alzheimer’s disease models

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Impact of delivery rate on the acute response to intravenous nicotine: A human laboratory study with implications for regulatory science

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Repetitive mild concussion in subjects with a vulnerable cholinergic system: Lasting cholinergic-attentional impairments in CHT+/− mice.

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