The Cholinergic Hypothesis: A Historical Overview, Current Perspective, and Future Directions

The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects

G. Blessed, B. E. Tomlinson, Martin Roth · The British Journal of Psychiatry · 1968 · 4.1K citations

Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Neurology +17

Alzheimer's Disease and Senile Dementia: Loss of Neurons in the Basal Forebrain

PJ Whitehouse, DL Price, R. G. Struble et al. · Science · 1982 · 3.6K citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Correlation of cholinergic abnormalities with senile plaques and mental test scores in senile dementia.

Elaine K. Perry, B. E. Tomlinson, G. Blessed et al. · BMJ · 1978 · 2K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurology, Neuroscience +17

Cholinergic innervation of cortex by the basal forebrain: Cytochemistry and cortical connections of the septal area, diagonal band nuclei, nucleus basalis (Substantia innominata), and hypothalamus in the rhesus monkey

M.‐Marsel Mesulam, Elliott J. Mufson, Allan I. Levey et al. · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · 1983 · 2K citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

Alzheimer disease: Evidence for selective loss of cholinergic neurons in the nucleus basalis

Peter J. Whitehouse, Donald L. Price, Arthur W. Clark et al. · Annals of Neurology · 1981 · 1.7K citations

Life Sciences, Neurology, Neuroscience +17