Recreational drugs and their neurological

Neurology in Practice

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Enevoldson, T P ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMPHETAMINE; AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CANNABIS; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CLENBUTEROL; COCAINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAMORPHINE; EPHEDRINE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FLUNITRAZEPAM; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; KETAMINE; LYSERGIDE; METHYLPHENIDATE; OPIATE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PHENCYCLIDINE; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; PSYCHEDELIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; STEROID; STREET DRUG; ALCOHOL; ANABOLIC AGENT; RECREATIONAL DRUG;

AGITATION; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; ATAXIA; ATHLETE; BOTULISM; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABUSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSTONIA; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; EUPHORIA; FLUSHING; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERPYREXIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFARCTION; INJURY; LUNG EDEMA; MENINGITIS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SWEATING; TACHYCARDIA; TETANUS; THROMBOGENESIS; TIC; TREMOR; VASCULITIS; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOSPASM; XEROSTOMIA; ALCOHOL ABUSE; BRAIN CORTEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MISUSE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOPING IN SPORTS; HALLUCINOGENS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SOLVENTS; STREET DRUGS; SYNDROME;

EID: 4344628550     PISSN: 14737086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.045732     Document Type: Review

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