Deleterious effects of a low amount of ethanol on LTP-like plasticity in human cortex

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1508-1518

  Lücke, Caroline ^a   Heidegger, Tonio ^a   Röhner, Mirjam ^a   Toennes, Stefan W ^a   Krivanekova, Lucia ^a   Müller Dahlhaus, Florian ^a,b   Ziemann, Ulf ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

GABAA receptor; human motor cortex; LTP like plasticity; paired associative stimulation; tonic inhibition; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; ALPRAZOLAM; GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID TYPE A RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZOLPIDEM; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DOUBLE DISSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ALPRAZOLAM; BENZODIAZEPINES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ETHANOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRIDINES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84900800901     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.350     Document Type: Article

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