MAPS: New paper on cognitive performance in Ecstasy users

[Alex Gamma <gamma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a new paper on cognitive performance in E users by UnaMcCann et al.
out in Psychopharmacology (1999) 143:417-425

you can read the abstract and download a PDF of the whole article on 

http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00213/bibs/9143004/91430417.htm


>From the abstract:

"However, MDMA subjects had significant performance deficits on a sustained
attention task requiring arithmetic calculations, a task requiring complex
attention and incidental learning, a task requiring short term memory and a
task of semantic recognition and verbal reasoning. MDMA users also had
significant selective decreases in CSF 5-HIAA."

23 MDMA users (3 weeks off drug) vs. 23 controls have participated in the
study.

Alex 




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