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Hadjiefthyvoulou, F, Fisk, JE, Montgomery, C and Bridges, N, 2011. Everyday and prospective memory deficits in ecstasy/polydrug users. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 25 (4). ISSN 1461-7285
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Abstract
The impact of ecstasy/polydrug use on real-world memory (i.e. everyday memory, cognitive failures and prospective memory [PM]) was investigated in a sample of 42 ecstasy/polydrug users and 31 non-ecstasy users. Laboratory-based PM tasks were administered along with self-reported measures of PM to test whether any ecstasy/polydrug-related impairment on the different aspects of PM was present. Self-reported measures of everyday memory and cognitive failures were also administered. Ecstasy/polydrug associated deficits were observed on both laboratory and self-reported measures of PM and everyday memory. The present study extends previous research by demonstrating that deficits in PM are real and cannot be simply attributed to self-misperceptions. The deficits observed reflect some general capacity underpinning both time- and event-based PM contexts and are not task specific. Among this group of ecstasy/polydrug users recreational use of cocaine was also prominently associated with PM deficits. Further research might explore the differential effects of individual illicit drugs on real-world memory.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Journal of Psychopharmacology |
| Creators: | Hadjiefthyvoulou, F., Fisk, J.E., Montgomery, C. and Bridges, N. |
| Publisher: | Sage on behalf of British Association for Psychopharmacology |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Number: | 4 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7285 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1177/0269881109359101 DOI |
| Rights: | Copyright © 2011 by British Association for Psychopharmacology |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | EPrints Services |
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:57 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2016 09:13 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/20659 |
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