Abstract
Diazepam, an anxiolytic, was administered to 16 undergraduate volunteers in a double-blind design. Eight subjects were selected to be high in State and Trait anxiety and were slow in recall on a semantic memory task compared to non-anxious subjects. Instead of alleviating this detrimental effect of anxiety on memory, diazepam slowed recall in both the anxious and non-anxious.
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Hartley, L.R., Spencer, J. & Williamson, J. Anxiety, diazepam and retrieval from semantic memory. Psychopharmacology 76, 291–293 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00432564
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