MDMA polydrug users show process-specific central executive impairments coupled with impaired social and emotional judgement processes

• Published in: Journal of Psychopharmacology
• Main Authors: Reay, Jonathon L., Hamilton, Colin J., Kennedy, David O., Scholey, A. B.
• Other Authors: Swinburne University of Technology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sage 2006
• Subjects: Tromso
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/45616; https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881106063269

In recent years working memory deficits have been reported in users of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, ecstasy). The current study aimed to assess the impact of MDMA use on three separate central executive processes (set shifting, inhibition and memory updating) and also on 'prefrontal...