## Abstract Previous research suggests that MDMA users are impaired in various aspects of cognitive functioning, however, it remains unclear whether they might experience deficits in established measures of verbal working memory functioning. In the present study current and previous MDMA users were
Visuospatial working memory impairment in current and previous ecstasy/polydrug users
β Scribed by John E. Fisk; Catharine Montgomery; Florentia Hadjiefthyvoulou
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6222
- DOI
- 10.1002/hup.1207
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Verbal working memory and executive deficits have been observed in ecstasy users. The present study sought to establish whether these also extended to visuo-spatial working memory. Thirty-six current ecstasy users, 12 former users (abstinent for at least 6 months) and 31 individuals that had never u
## Objective The aim of this study was to determine the effect of light longβterm ecstasy consumption on verbal shortβterm and working memory and to identify the cognitive processes contributing to task performance. ## Method Electroencephalogram was recorded while ecstasy users (__N__β=β11), pol