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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). pp. 453-464. ISSN 0269-8811
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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: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 11 Medical And Health Sciences, 17 Psychology And Cognitive Sciences |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
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| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2015 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 14:23 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1177/0269881109359101 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1089 |
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