Influence of cigarette smoking on prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in schizophrenia

Human Psychopharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 321-326

  Kumari, Veena ^a   Soni, William ^a   Sharma, Tonmoy ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle reflex; Prepulse inhibition; Schizophrenia; Sensorimotor gating; Startle gating; Tobacco smoking

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POPULATION; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; TOBACCO;

EID: 0034944227     PISSN: 08856222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hup.286     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Nicotine increases sensory gating measured as inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex in rats
2. Normalization by nicotine of deficient auditory sensory gating in the relatives of schizophrenia
3. Normalization of auditory physiology by cigarette smoking in schizophrenic patients
4. Prestimulus effects on human startle reflex in normals and schizophrenics
5. Gating and habituation of the startle reflex in schizophrenic patients
6. Tobacco use and prepulse inhibition in schizophrenia patients
7. Substance abuse in schizophrenia
8. Effects of nicotine, lobeline, and mecamylamine on sensory gating in the rat
9. Schizophrenia and smoking: An epidemiological survey in a state hospital
10. The effects of smoking on acoustic prepulse inhibition in healthy men and women
11. Measuring degree of physical dependence to tobacco smoking with reference to individualization of treatment
12. Inhibitory gating of an evoked response to repeated auditory stimuli in schizophrenic and normal subjects
13. Evidence in post-mortem brain tissue for decreased numbers of hippocampal nicotinic receptors in schizophrenia
14. The more or less startling effects of weak prestimuli
15. Startle gating deficit occurs across prepulse intensities in schizophrenic patients
16. Prevalence of smoking among psychiatric disorders
17. Effects of acute subcutaneous nicotine on attention, information processing and short-term memory in Alzheimer's disease
18. The positive and negative syndrome scale
19. Effect of cigarette smoking on prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex in healthy male smokers
20. Effect of acute subcutaneous nicotine on prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex in healthy male non-smokers
21. Smoking withdrawal, nicotine dependence and prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex
22. Prepulse inhibition of the startle response in schizophrenia: Effects of age of onset of illness, mediation and symptoms
23. Normalization of information processing deficits by clozapine in schizophrenia
24. Habituation and prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex: Effects of smoking status and psychosis-proneness
25. Transdermal nicotine effects on attention
26. Effects of nicotine administered via a transdermal delivery system on vigilance: A repeated measure study
27. Increased levels of the nicotine metabolite cotinine in schizophrenic smokers compared to other smokers
28. Effects of cigarette smoking and 12-h abstention on working memory during a serial-probe recognition task
29. Concurrent assessment of acoustic startle and auditory P50 evoked potential measures of sensory stimulation
30. Nicotine cholinergic normalization of amphetamine-induced loss of auditory gating in freely-moving rats
31. Selective alpha-7 nicotinic receptor stimulation normalizes chronic-cocaine induced loss of hippocampal sensory inhibition in C3H mice
32. Selective alpha-7 nicotinic agonists normalize inhibition of auditory response in DBA mice
33. Normalizing effects of nicotine and a novel nicotinic agonist on hippocampal auditory gating in two animal models
34. Men are more inhibited than women by weak prepulses
35. Animal models of deficient sensorimotor gating: What we know, what we need to know, and what we hope to know soon
36. Assessing the validity of an animal model of deficient sensorimotor gating in schizophrenic patients
37. Nicotine as a cognitive enhancer
38. Improvements in performance without nicotine withdrawal
39. Smoking, nicotine and human performance