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karen

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Over the past several years, most drug treatments attempting to reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease have involved drugs that somehow amplify _________________ activity in the brain.
 
  a. acetylcholine
  b. noradrenaline
  c. dopamine
  d. serotonin

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Cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease patients
 
  a. in most cases can be traced to one or two specific abnormalities in the brain
  b. have in most cases been successfully treated by a variety of drugs
  c. have in some cases been traced to a degeneration in cholinergic neurons in the brain
  d. all of the above


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dpost18

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

c


karen

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
:D TYSM

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Gracias!

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