For client and family teaching, the nurse will rely on information that Alzheimer's disease is cur-rently best explained as being related to:
1. GABA excess
2. Dopamine excess
3. Serotonin deficiency
4. Acetylcholine deficiency
ANS: 4
Decreased levels of acetylcholine are thought to produce many of the behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The other conditions have not been implicated in Alzheimer's disease.
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