Acute Effects of Ketamine on Memory Systems and Psychotic Symptoms in Healthy Volunteers
| Autor: | H. Valerie Curran, Lesley Bromley, Ali Mofeez, Celia J. A. Morgan, Brigitta Brandner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Male Psychosis Adolescent medicine.drug_class Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Procedural memory Cognition Memory Surveys and Questionnaires Reaction Time medicine Humans Semantic memory Recognition memory Pharmacology Analysis of Variance Language Tests Dose-Response Relationship Drug Working memory Memoria medicine.disease Semantics Psychiatry and Mental health Case-Control Studies Anesthesia Female Ketamine Schizophrenic Psychology Comprehension Psychology Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychopharmacology. 29:208-218 |
| ISSN: | 1740-634X 0893-133X |
| DOI: | 10.1038/sj.npp.1300342 |
| Popis: | N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists have been demonstrated to induce schizophrenia-like symptoms and cognitive impairment in humans. The NMDA receptor has been strongly implicated in memory, but research to date on the effects of NMDA antagonists has examined only some aspects of human memory functions. This study used a double-blind, placebo-controlled, independent groups design with 54 healthy volunteers to examine the effects of infusions of two doses (0.4, 0.8 mg/kg) of the NMDA antagonist ketamine upon the five human memory systems, aspects of executive functioning and schizophrenia-like and dissociative symptoms. Ketamine produced a dose-dependent impairment to episodic and working memory and a slowing of semantic processing. Ketamine also impaired recognition memory and procedural learning. Attention, perceptual priming and executive functioning were not affected following the drug. In addition, ketamine induced schizophrenia-like and dissociative symptoms, which were not correlated with the cognitive measures. These data suggest that, in humans, ketamine produces a selective pattern of impairments to working, episodic, and procedural memory but not to perceptual priming, attention or aspects of executive functioning. |
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