The effects of antiepileptic drugs on cognition in normal volunteers

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 61-69

  Akaho, Rie ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

antiepileptic drugs; event related potentials; N1; P3; revised edition; sensory memory; Wechsler Memory Scale

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0029968161     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1996.tb01665.x     Document Type: Article

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