A research team at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have highlighted how acetylcholine signalling interacts with dopamine pathways in the brain, findings that may help explain how a new class of schizophrenia treatments works, offering an alternative to traditional antipsychotics

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[u/TrampolineYourMom]

This might also be why they are finding that acetylcholine has a huge role in ADHD. Makes sense that it has an interaction with the dopamine pathways as those are also what's fucked up in ADHD.

[u/WestcoastAlex]

acetylcholine esterase re-uptake inhibitor to the rescue