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Antianxiety Drugs and Human Performance
Douglas M. McNair, PhD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1973;29(5):611-617.
Abstract
Research studies concerning the behavioral effects of chlordiazepoxide hydrochloride, diazepam, and meprobamate are analyzed and reviewed. Five major characteristics of studies in the sample are statistically described and related. The drug sensitivity of 43 performance measures is evaluated, most and least promising measures are identified, and performance effects are related to experimental design characteristics. Conflicting evidence, gross inadequacies in the data base and glaring gaps in the literature greatly restrict the clinical implications of the research to date. In view of their widespread use, it should be of concern that there is so little sound and clinically relevant information about what behavioral effects these drugs produce.
Author Affiliations
Boston
From the Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Division of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 11, 1973.
Presented at the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1972.
Reprint requests to Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Harrison Ave, Boston 02118 (Dr. McNair).
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