Dose effects of triazolam on brain activity during episodic memory encoding: A PET study

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 445-461

  Mintzer, Miriam Z ^a   Kuwabara, Hiroto ^a   Alexander, Mohab ^a   Brasic, James R ^a   Ye, Weiguo ^a   Ernst, Monique ^b   Griffiths, Roland R ^a   Wong, Dean F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepine; Cerebral blood flow; Memory; PET

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; OXYGEN; PLACEBO; TRIAZOLAM; WATER O 15; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER; BRAIN; COGNITION; DRUG EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRIAZOLAM;

EID: 34248583904     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0446-8     Document Type: Article

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