Neutral and emotional episodic memory: Global impairment after lorazepam or scopolamine

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 482-488

  Kamboj, Sunjeev K ^a   Curran, H Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Alzheimer's disease; Amnesia; Emotion; Emotional memory; GABA; Lorazepam; Memory; PTSD; Scopolamine

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LORAZEPAM; PLACEBO; SCOPOLAMINE; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; HUMANS; LORAZEPAM; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; SCOPOLAMINE;

EID: 34248588585     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0552-7     Document Type: Article

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