Sentences with phrase «brain chemical acetylcholine»

To make matters worse, as you age, you make fewer of the chemicals your brain needs to function properly — including the signaling brain chemical acetylcholine, which helps support memory and cognition.

The hormone increases the concentration of an enzyme needed to synthesize the memory - boosting brain chemical acetylcholine and enhances communication between neurons in your hippocampus.

It eases dementia symptoms by protecting levels of the brain chemical acetylcholine.

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Tony and his clientele admit to taking stronger «smart drugs» than those he's selling tonight, drugs such as piracetam (which supposedly boosts levels of acetylcholine in the brain), hydergine and propanolol (both said to work by increasing blood flow through the brain), L - Dopa (a chemical precursor of the neurotransmitter dopamine), phenytoin, vasopressin, deprenyl, the list seems almost endless.

The brain is well buffered against the effect of arbitrary increases or decreases in circulating chemicals so that simply consuming food additives which are acetylcholine precursors will not normally increase your brain acetylcholine level.

Chemicals like DEET and permethrin can enter the brain through disruption of the blood - brain barrier, where they can inhibit the breakdown of a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine.

Your brain communicates with your muscles by releasing a chemical neurotransmitter called acetylcholine, which signals them to contract.

But it does prevent the breakdown of a brain chemical called acetylcholine, believed to be important for memory, thinking, and reasoning.