Midazolam amnesia and retrieval from semantic memory: Developing methods to test theories of implicit memory

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 427-432

  Hirshman, Elliot ^a   Fisher, Julia ^b   Henthorn, Thomas ^c   Arndt, Jason ^d   Passannante, Anthony ^e  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Category generation; Implicit memory; Midazolam; Pharmacological amnesia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; MIDAZOLAM;

AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; THEORY;

EID: 0344442409     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(03)00214-8     Document Type: Article

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