Dissociated effects of diazepam and lorazepam on short-latency afferent inhibition

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 569, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 315-323

  Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a   Pilato, Fabio ^a   Dileone, Michele ^a   Tonali, Pietro A ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; DISSOCIATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; SHORT LATENCY AFFERENT INHIBITION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; DIAZEPAM; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LORAZEPAM; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 28244495525     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.092155     Document Type: Article

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