The effects of smoking on acoustic prepulse inhibition in healthy men and women

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 362-368

  Della Casa, V ^a   Hofer I ^a   Weiner, I ^b   Feldon, J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gating; Gender; Human; Nicotine; Prepulse inhibition; Smoking; Startle

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT INHIBITION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CARBON MONOXIDE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0031745617     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050631     Document Type: Article

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