Using β-blockers to control stage fright: A dancer's dilemma

Medical Problems of Performing Artists

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 72-76

  Harris, David Alan ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; METOPROLOL; OXPRENOLOL; PROPRANOLOL;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DANCING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MUSICIAN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0035010871     PISSN: 08851158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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