Impairment of contrast sensitivity in long-term lorazepam users

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 594-600

  Giersch, Anne ^a   Speeg Schatz, Claude ^a   Tondre, Monique ^a   Gottenkiene, Sylvaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepine; Contrast sensitivity; Drug tolerance; Lorazepam; Oculomotor; Vision; Visual acuity; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; FLUOXETINE; LORAZEPAM; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; EXOPHORIA; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPILLOGRAPHY; SEDATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EXOTROPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LORAZEPAM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744960568     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0378-3     Document Type: Article

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