• DOI:10.1007/s00213-008-1123-x
Corpus ID: 2126631

Acute effects of opioids on memory functions of healthy men and women

@article{Friswell2008AcuteEO,
  title={Acute effects of opioids on memory functions of healthy men and women},
  author={J. Friswell and C. Phillips and J. Holding and C. Morgan and B. Brandner and H. Curran},
  journal={Psychopharmacology},
  year={2008},
  volume={198},
  pages={243-250}
}

• J. Friswell, C. Phillips, +3 authors H. Curran
• Published 2008
• Medicine
• Psychopharmacology

IntroductionAlthough several psychotropic drugs can acutely induce an anterograde impairment of memory which impedes new learning, they do not produce retrograde impairments, reducing memory for information learned prior to the drug being administered. However, both anterograde and retrograde memory impairments have been reported following an acute dose of morphine in palliative care patients (Kamboj et al., Pain 117:388–395, 2005).ObjectiveThe present study was designed to determine: (1… Expand

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