Everyday memory deficits in ecstasy-polydrug users
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Everyday memory deficits in ecstasy-polydrug users.
Recent research suggests that not only does the use of recreational drugs impact on working memory functioning, but more ;everyday' aspects of memory (e.g. remembering to do something in the future) are also affected. Forty-three ecstasy-polydrug users and 51 non-ecstasy users were recruited from a university population. Each participant completed the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychopharmacology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0269-8811,1461-7285
DOI: 10.1177/0269881107077220