Objective and subjective cognitive enhancing effects of mixed amphetamine salts in healthy people

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 496-505

  Ilieva, Irena ^a   Boland, Joseph ^a   Farah, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adderall; Amphetamine; Cognitive enhancement; COMT; Creativity; Inhibitory control; Intelligence; Memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; PLACEBO;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GENE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSORY PERCEPTION; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; VOLUNTEER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AMPHETAMINES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COGNITION; CREATIVITY; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING SUBSTANCES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866406718     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.07.021     Document Type: Article

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