Smoking cues decrease prepulse inhibition of the startle response and increase subjective craving in humans

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 250-256

  Hutchison, Kent E ^a   Niaura, Raymond ^b   Swift, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEUROBIOLOGY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; SMOKING; STARTLE REFLEX; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CUES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032787275     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.7.3.250     Document Type: Article

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