Anticholinergics are effective for some drug-induced movement disorders and not others because the mechanisms differ. Though patients may present with similar symptoms, not all drug-induced movement ...
Anticholinergic medications, a class of drugs very commonly used by older adults, are linked to an increased rate of emergency department and hospital utilization in the United States, according to an ...
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, 33 Russell Street, T-109 Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada 3 Multimodal Imaging Group, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, Toronto, ...
Anticholinergic burden refers to the cumulative effect of taking one or more medications with anticholinergic properties, which inhibit the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. In older adults, an ...