Diminished acoustic startle in chronic cocaine users

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-96

  Efferen, Toby R ^a,b   Duncan, Erica J ^a   Szilagyi, Sandor ^a,b   Chakravorty, Subhajit ^c   Adams, Jill U ^a,b   Gonzenbach, Stephen ^b   Angrist, Burt ^a,b   Butler, Pamela D ^a,d   Rotrosen, John ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Cocaine; Dopamine; Gating; Human; Prepulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; STARTLE REFLEX; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0033991264     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(99)00089-5     Document Type: Article

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