Verbal Learning - Drug effects
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Donepezil improves episodic memory in young individuals vulnerable to the effects of sleep deprivation.

30 Jul 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVES: We investigated if donepezil, a long-acting orally administered cholinesterase inhibitor, would reduce episodic memory deficits associated with 24 h of sleep deprivation. DESIGN: Double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study ... Read more...

Effect of aspirin on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and on neuropsychological performance in healthy adults: a pilot study.

27 Apr 2009 RATIONALE: Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation predicts poor clinical and biochemical response to antidepressants. Antiglucocorticoids have therapeutic benefits but most have a troublesome adverse event profile. Aspects of ... Read more...

Effect of perospirone on P300 electrophysiological activity and social cognition in schizophrenia: a three-dimensional analysis with sloreta.

20 Apr 2009 The purpose of this study was to determine if perospirone, a second generation antipsychotic drug and partial agonist at serotonin-5-HT(1A) receptors, enhances electrophysiological activity, such as event-related potentials (ERPs), in frontal brain ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Verbal Learning - Drug effects'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Donepezil improves episodic memory in young individuals vulnerable to the effects of sleep deprivation. 30 Jul 2009
• Effect of aspirin on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and on neuropsychological performance in healthy adults: a pilot study. 27 Apr 2009
• Effect of perospirone on P300 electrophysiological activity and social cognition in schizophrenia: a three-dimensional analysis with sloreta. 20 Apr 2009
• Acute administration of the cannabinoid CB1 antagonist rimonabant impairs positive affective memory in healthy volunteers. 30 Mar 2009
• The effects of smoking and smoking abstinence on verbal and visuospatial working memory capacity. 30 Mar 2009
• Importance of psychiatric confounding in non-randomized studies of heavy ecstasy users. 10 Feb 2009
• Short-term changes in endogenous estrogen levels and consumption of soy isoflavones affect working and verbal memory in young adult females. 29 Nov 2008
• The effect of Ecstasy on memory is moderated by a functional polymorphism in the cathechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene. 28 Nov 2008
• Prospective cognitive follow-up in primary CNS lymphoma patients treated with chemotherapy and reduced-dose radiotherapy. 30 Oct 2008
• A scoring system to quantify late effects in children after treatment for medulloblastoma/ependymoma and its correlation with quality of life and neurocognitive functioning. 28 Oct 2008
• Androgen treatment effects on memory in female-to-male transsexuals. 5 Oct 2008
• The effects of cigarette smoking and abstinence on auditory verbal learning. 29 Sep 2008
• Effects of nicotine and depressive traits on affective priming of lateralized emotional word identification. 30 Jul 2008
• The apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele and memory performance in HIV-1 seropositive subjects: differences at baseline but not after acute oral lorazepam challenge. 29 Jul 2008
• Rapid improvement in verbal fluency and aphasia following perispinal etanercept in Alzheimer's disease. 19 Jul 2008
• Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic effects of the intravenously administered CB1 receptor agonist Org 28611 in healthy male volunteers. 15 Jul 2008
• Auditory event-related potentials (P3) and cognitive performance in recreational ecstasy polydrug users: evidence from a 12-month longitudinal study. 24 Jun 2008
• Randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of memantine for cognitive changes with corticosteroid therapy. 23 Jun 2008
• The usefulness of growth hormone treatment for psychological status in young adult survivors of childhood leukaemia: an open-label study. 18 Jun 2008
• Effects of transdermal nicotine on episodic memory in non-smokers with and without schizophrenia. 10 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Verbal Learning'

Definition: Learning to respond verbally to a verbal stimulus cue.

Descriptor UI: D014706

Alternative terms: Verbal Learning; Learning, Verbal; Learnings, Verbal; Verbal Learnings;

Related Mesh Headings: Language Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.952;