Psychomotor performance in healthy young adult volunteers receiving lormetazepam and placebo: A single-dose, randomized, double-blind, crossover trial

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-83

  Fabbrini, Monica ^a   Frittelli, Cristina ^a   Bonanni, Enrica ^a   Maestri, Michelangelo ^a   Manca, Maria Laura ^a   Iudice, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Healthy volunteers; Lormetazepam; Reaction times

Indexed keywords

LORMETAZEPAM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 14844311998     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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