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Dear Donna, I think I can supply a fairly good explanation of anti-cholinergic drugs. There is a neurotransmitter known as acytelcholine, which is, for lack of a better word, adrenaline. Acytelcholine acts WITH dopamine as the body's main source of movement. Anti-cholinergic drugs reduce the amount of acytelcholine the brain produces. This may seem counterproductive to our purposes, seeing as we want more movement instead of less. The trick is what decreasing the amount of acytelcholine does to the level of dopamine. The brain will try to compensate for the loss of one of its movement producing neurotransmitters by increasing the production of the other. Thus, in theory, dopamine production is stimulated. Hope this provides an adequate answer to your question. Jacob