Did You Know? Anticholinergic Medication Burden

December 22, 2023

What are Anticholinergic Drugs? Anticholinergic medications (‘anticholinergics’) are drugs that block and inhibit the activity of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine found in the central and peripheral nervous system. In doing so, these drugs inhibit the actions of the parasympathetic nervous system (‘rest and digest’) via selective blockade of acetylcholine from binding to its neuronal receptors. Acetylcholine…