Enhancement by an ampakine of memory encoding in humans

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 553-559

  Ingvar, Martin ^a   Ambros Ingerson, Jose ^b   Davis, Mike ^b   Granger, Richard ^b   Kessler, Markus ^b   Rogers, Gary A ^b   Schehr, Robert S ^b   Lynch, Gary ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Cortex Pharmaceuticals Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 QUINOXALINECARBOXYLIC ACID PIPERIDIDE; AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPAKINE; PLACEBO; QUISQUALIC ACID RECEPTOR AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLECT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SMELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031214027     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6581     Document Type: Article

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