An additive factor analysis of the effect of sub-anaesthetic doses of nitrous oxide on information processing: Evidence for an impairment of the motor adjustment stage

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 321-328

  Courtière, Alain ^a   Hardouin, Jeannine ^a   Vidal, Franck ^a,b   Possamaï, Camille Aimé ^c   Hasbroucq, Thierry ^a,b  

^a Inst Med Navale Serv S Armees   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Additive factor method; Movement time; Narcosis; Nitrous oxide; Rat; Reaction time; Time estimation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0037321940     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-002-1278-9     Document Type: Article

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