Ed Horn

Separate and combined effects of low dose ketamine and nicotine on behavioural and neural correlates of sustained attention.

Biological Psychology July 13, 2011 Verner J Knott, Anne M Millar, Judy F McIntosh et al.

Given the cognitive-promoting properties of the nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptor (nAChR) agonist, nicotine, the increased prevalence of smoke-inhaled nicotine in schizophrenia has been interpreted as an attempt to self-correct cognitive deficits, which have been particularly pronounced in the attentional domain. As glutamatergic abnormalities have been implicated in these attentional...