Psychopharmacology and reaction time
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Psychopharmacology and reaction time
（A Wiley medical publication）
Wiley, c1988
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book aims to review and illustrate the uses of reaction time in psychopharmacology ranging from inter-CNS work in neurophysiology to the gross measurement of behavioural changes in vital life situations such as the braking time taken to stop a car. The "illustrations" are backed by methodological and theoretical contributions which place studies using RT in an appropriate context. The theme throughout emphasizes the numerous aspects relating to the use of RT in psychopharmacology. The final result is a set of contributions which examine the most important measure of behavioural response to psychotropic drugs. Dr I. Hindmarch is the author of "Human Psychopharmacology Vol 1".
Table of Contents
- Pharmacosensitivity of the simple reaction time test compared with other speed loaded psychometric tasks
- the evaluation of drug effects in laboratory tasks
- two experimental approaches to specifying drug effects
- physiological and subjective state versus information processing
- age-related visual information processing in tasks of different complexity
- age-related automatic versus controlled visual search
- some boundary conditions of choice-reaction performance
- some comments on the use of information processing rate as an index of change and individual differences in performance
- reaction time with distractors
- some possibilities for drug assessment
- the effects of time of day, age and anxiety on a choice reaction task
- relative advantages and disadvantages of various performance measures in the assessment of psychotropic drug effects
- localization in the stimulus and response-contingent brain
- post ingestion effects of benzodiazepines in evoked potentials and reaction times in discrimination tasks
- visual evoked potentials and reaction times to chromatic and achromatic stimulation
- psychopharmacological applications
- explaining the common effect of sedative drugs on driving using performance models.
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