Inferring about individual drug and schizotypy effects on cognitive functioning in polydrug using mephedrone users before and after clubbing
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2013
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new wave drugs; mephedrone; cognition; psychosis spectrum; substance dependence; cathinoneSujets proches
Pseudopsychopathic schizophrenia Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia Schizotypy Incipient schizophrenia Borderline schizophrenia Latent schizophreniaCiter ce document
D.A. Herzig et al., « Inferring about individual drug and schizotypy effects on cognitive functioning in polydrug using mephedrone users before and after clubbing », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10.1002/hup.2307
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Objective: Mephedrone has been recently made illegal in Europe, but little empirical evidence is available on its impact on human cognitive functions. We investigated acute and chronic effects of mephedrone consumption on drug-sensitive cognitive measures, while also accounting for the influence of associated additional drug use and personality features. Method: Twenty-six volunteers from the general population performed tasks measuring verbal learning, verbal fluency and cognitive flexibility before and after a potential drug-taking situation (pre- and post-clubbing at dance clubs, respectively). Participants also provided information on chronic and recent drug use, schizotypal (O-LIFE) and depressive symptoms (Beck depression inventory), sleep pattern and premorbid IQ. Results: We found that i) mephedrone users performed worse than non-users pre-clubbing, and deteriorated from the pre-clubbing to the post-clubbing assessment, ii) pre-clubbing cannabis and amphetamine (not mephedrone) use predicted relative cognitive attenuations, iii) post-clubbing, depression scores predicted relative cognitive attenuations, and iv) schizotypy was largely unrelated to cognitive functioning, apart from a negative relationship between cognitive disorganisation and verbal fluency. Conclusion: Results suggest that polydrug use and depressive symptoms in the general population negatively affect cognition. For schizotypy, only elevated cognitive disorganisation showed potential links to a pathological cognitive profile previously reported along the psychosis dimension.