Inert gas and raised pressure: Evidence that motor decrements are due to pressure per se and cognitive decrements due to narcotic action

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 433, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 788-791

  Abraini, Jacques H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Cognition; HPNS; Inert gas; Lipid solubility theories; Narcosis; Psychomotor

Indexed keywords

INERT GAS;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DIVING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LIPID SOLUBILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INERT GAS NARCOSIS; LIPIDS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOBLE GASES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0030890316     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050346     Document Type: Article

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