Stimulant-Related State-Dependent Learning in Hyperactive Children
- 25 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 192 (4246) , 1354-1357
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1273596
Abstract
Hyperactive and nonhyperactive children performed a learning task in 2 states, while being treated with stimulant medication (methylphenidate) and while taking a placebo, and were tested for retention of each class of learned material in both states. Symmetrical state-dependent learning was demonstrated in the hyperactive group but not in the nonhyperactive group. The state-dependent effect was contingent on the presence of drug-induced facilitation during initial learning. This is apparently the first report on record of state-dependent learning with a drug agent that facilitates rather than impairs performance of human subjects.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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