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@ARTICLE{Kukolja:7950,
author = {Kukolja, J. and Thiel, C.M. and Fink, G. R.},
title = {{C}holinergic stimulation enhances neural activity
associated with encoding but reduces neural activity
associated with retrieval in humans},
journal = {The journal of neuroscience},
volume = {29},
issn = {0270-6474},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Soc.},
reportid = {PreJuSER-7950},
pages = {8119 - 8128},
year = {2009},
note = {This work was supported by a grant of the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG-KFO 112, TP8) to G. R. F. and C.
M. T. We thank all our volunteers. We are grateful to our
colleagues of the MR and Cognitive Neurology groups for
valuable support. We thank Laura Amort and Birte Berger for
neuropsychological testing.},
abstract = {The cerebral cholinergic system is centrally involved in
memory formation. Studies in rodents suggest that
cholinergic stimulation may facilitate encoding of new
information but may interfere with retrieval. We
investigated the effect of cholinergic stimulation on
encoding and retrieval of episodic memory in humans. We also
tested whether the putative benefit of cholinergic
stimulation on memory function depends on individual
baseline performance. Since such effects were expected to be
greatest in an older population resulting from an
age-related degeneration of the cholinergic system, we
recruited 22 healthy older subjects (51-68 years) for an
event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging
experiment. In two separate scanning sessions, subjects
encoded and retrieved items and their spatial context under
cholinergic stimulation or placebo with the
acetylcholine-esterase inhibitor physostigmine or saline
being administered intravenously in a double-blind
cross-over design. Baseline performance was recorded at a
separate occasion without scanning. Cholinergic stimulation
enhanced neural activity for successful versus unsuccessful
spatial context encoding in the right hippocampus but
reduced activity for successful versus unsuccessful spatial
context retrieval in the right amygdala. These data may
bridge the gap between rodent and human studies by showing
that also in man cholinergic stimulation enhances encoding
but interferes with retrieval on a neural level.
Furthermore, baseline performance negatively correlated with
the effect of cholinergic stimulation. Thus, participants
who were worse at baseline benefited more from cholinergic
stimulation than those who had better baseline values,
indicating that a cholinergic deficit contributes to the
memory decline even in healthy older subjects.},
keywords = {Aged / Amygdala: drug effects / Amygdala: physiology /
Analysis of Variance / Cholinesterase Inhibitors:
administration $\&$ dosage / Cholinesterase Inhibitors:
pharmacology / Cross-Over Studies / Double-Blind Method /
Female / Functional Laterality: drug effects / Hippocampus:
drug effects / Hippocampus: physiology / Humans /
Injections, Intravenous / Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Male
/ Memory: drug effects / Middle Aged / Neuropsychological
Tests / Physostigmine: administration $\&$ dosage /
Physostigmine: pharmacology / Psychomotor Performance: drug
effects / Reaction Time: drug effects / Space Perception:
drug effects / Spatial Behavior: drug effects /
Cholinesterase Inhibitors (NLM Chemicals) / Physostigmine
(NLM Chemicals) / J (WoSType)},
cin = {INM-3},
ddc = {590},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406},
pnm = {Funktion und Dysfunktion des Nervensystems},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK409},
shelfmark = {Neurosciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:19553452},
UT = {WOS:000267339000019},
doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0203-09.2009},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/7950},
}