Cognitive, psychomotor, and subjective effects of sodium oxybate and triazolam in healthy volunteers

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-154

  Carter, Lawrence P ^a   Griffiths, Roland R ^b   Mintzer, Miriam Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Amnesia; GHB; Human; Memory; Sexual assault; Xyrem

Indexed keywords

OXYBATE SODIUM; PLACEBO; TRIAZOLAM;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROTOXICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SODIUM OXYBATE; TRIAZOLAM;

EID: 69049103006     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-009-1589-1     Document Type: Article

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