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The Influence of Amobarbital (Amylobarbitone) and Methamphetamine on the Focus of Attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Enoch Callaway
Enoch Callaway*
Affiliation:
The Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Certain drugs apparently alter the focus of attention. This paper deals with attempts to confirm and extend knowledge about drug influences on the focus of attention, and to relate the concept of the focus of attention to the concepts of extraversion and introversion used by Eysenck and his co-workers.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 439 , April 1959 , pp. 382 - 392
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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