Research For Researchers: Cognition and Cholinergic Function after Traumatic Brain Injury: Lessons in TBI Translational Neuroscience (ACLP Foundation Research Professor Award Presentation)
On Demand
CE: 1.5
2021 ACLP Foundation Research Professor Award Winner
This presentation will offer a clinical context for inquiry into the relationship between cognition and cholinergic dysfunction after TBI. Dr. Arciniegas will briefly review cerebral cholinergic systems (structural and functional neuroanatomy in health); effects of TBI cerebral cholinergic systems; and clinical neurophysiology studies, neuroimaging studies, and clinical trials on cognition and cholinergic function to the study and care of persons with TBI. Attendees will also consider the clinical implications of all the above on the care of persons with persistent posttraumatic cognitive impairments.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the relationship between cognition and cholinergic function and describe cerebral cholinergic neuroanatomy and in health and after traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Apply findings from clinical trials of cholinergic augmentation to the care of patients with cognitive impairments after TBI
Consider the value of translational neuroscience in the service of advancing the care of persons with TBI
