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The 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task: A Task of Attention and Impulse Control for Rodents
Published on: August 10, 2014
[Choice reaction time (CRT) in humans after administration of lorazepam]
1Clinica Neurologica dell'Università di Pavia.
Bollettino Della Societa Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale
|January 30, 1979
Abstract:
Eight normal subjects were tested on auditory and visual choice reaction time and Tapping-Speed Test before and after two hours by administration of lorazepam (2.5 mg per os). CRTs slightly increase but not significantly; Tapping-Speed Test does not show changes. Nevertheless a significant increase of errors in all trials suggest a moderate decrease of performance after lorazepam.
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