Cholinergic enhancement of episodic memory in healthy young adults

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 170-179

  Grön, Georg ^a   Kirstein, Matthias ^a   Thielscher, Axel ^a   Riepe, Matthias W ^b   Spitzer, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Attention; Cognition; Hippocampus; Human; Learning and memory

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INDANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PIPERIDINES; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 25844473572     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-0043-2     Document Type: Article

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