Enhancement of suggestibility and imaginative ability with nitrous oxide

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 203, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 745-752

  Whalley, M G ^a   Brooks, G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypnosis; Hypnotisability; Imagery; Imagination; Imaginative ability; Nitrous oxide; NMDA; Suggestibility; Suggestion; Vividness

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL ANESTHESIA; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPNOSIS; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; MALE; NITROUS OXIDE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUGGESTION;

EID: 63449131900     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1424-0     Document Type: Article

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