Lorazepam-Induced Memory Deficits

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-3-3-3

Lorazepam-Induced Memory Deficits

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 3 (1989): Issue 3

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Mar 1989

Abstract

The effects of low doses of lorazepam (Ativan), 0.03 mg/kg IV, on episodic versus long-term memory, attention, and somatic and affective symptoms were investigated in a group of 16 children aged 2.8 to 14.2 years at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, and the Center for Pediatric Pharmacokinetics and Therapeutics, Departments of Clinical Pharmacy and Pediatrics, University of Tennessee, Memphis.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-3-3-3 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 19 - 20

Published on: Mar 1, 1989

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Low Doses of Lorazepam,

Intravenous Lorazepam,

Anterograde Amnestic Effect

© 1989 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
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Volume 3 (1989): Issue 3