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Careers in ecstasy use: do ecstasy users cease of their own accord? Implications for intervention development

BMC Public Health, 2008
Background Ecstasy (MDMA, 3, 4-methylenodioxymethamphetamine) use is widespread in the Netherlands, with a lifetime prevalence of 4.3%, and two-thirds of dance party visitors being ecstasy users.
Schaalma Herman P, Kok Gerjo, Peters Gjalt-Jorn   +2 more
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Long-term neuropsychological effects of ecstasy in middle-aged ecstasy/polydrug users [PDF]

, 2009
RATIONALE: Studies reporting ecstasy-induced serotonin-toxicity and (neuro)psychological dysfunctions have been conducted in young adults. Little is known about ecstasy effects later in life, when serotonin levels and cognition decrease as a consequence ...
Ben Schmand, Johan P. Smal, Maarten W. J. Koeter, Mathilde N. Gouwetor, Thelma Schilt, Wim van den Brink   +5 more
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Temporal and visual source memory deficits among ecstasy/polydrug users [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives: The present paper seeks to investigate whether source memory judgements are adversely affected by recreational illicit drug use. Method: Sixty-two ecstasy/polydrug users and 75 non ecstasy users completed a source memory task, in which they ...
Beatty, Bedi, Benjamini, Berry, Burke, Chalfonte, Davis, Duarte, Ferguson, Green, Halpern, Indlekofer, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Kahn, Kausler, Kausler, Kish, Lindsay, Lindsay, McCann, McCann, Meiser, Mitchell, Mitchell, Multhaup, Murphy, Murphy, Narum, Nulsen, Parrott, Raven, Rosselli, Schilt, Scholey, Shimamura, Smith, Strømsø, Thomasius, Tomasi, Unsworth, Vignali, Yacoubian, Zaldívar, Zaragoza   +45 more
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Reduced memory skills and increased hair cortisol levels in recent Ecstasy/MDMA users: significant but independent neurocognitive and neurohormonal deficits [PDF]

, 2015
Objectives The goals of this study were to measure the neurocognitive performance of recent users of recreational Ecstasy and investigate whether it was associated with the stress hormone cortisol.
Allott, Benningfield, Carhart-Harris, Crawford, Downey, Dumont, Farre, Frokjaer, Gerra, Gerra, Gouzoulis-Mayfrank, Green, Harris, Hellhammer, Herbert, Hoshi, King, Kuypers, Lindquist, McCann, McCann, McCann, McCann, McCann, McEwen, Mitrushina, Morgan, Murphy, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Parrott, Piechatzek, Potter, Ranganathan, Ricaurte, Soar, Soar, Stalder, Stalder, Stalder, Stalder, Taurah, Verkes, Wennig, Wetherell, Wilson, Wilson, Wolff   +58 more
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Extase sans savoir et écriture de l’extase (France, xviie siècle)

Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2017
Ecstasy without Knowledge and Writing of Ecstasy (France, 17th century). How can the assertion of an ecstasy devoid of the activity of intelligence and memory, be consistent with writing practices meant to bear witness to such an ecstasy?
Clément Duyck
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Electrophysiological Evidence of Atypical Processing Underlying Mental Set Shifting in Ecstasy Polydrug and Polydrug Users [PDF]

, 2013
Executive functioning deficits are reported in ecstasy users. However research into mental set switching has been equivocal, with behavioural studies suggesting the function is preserved.
Fairclough, SH, Fisk, JE, McGlone, FP, Montgomery, C, Roberts, CA   +4 more
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The differential effects of ecstasy/polydrug use on executive components: shifting, inhibition, updating and access to semantic memory [PDF]

, 2005
Rationale/Objectives Recent theoretical models suggest that the central executive may not be a unified structure. The present study explored the nature of central executive deficits in ecstasy users.
A Giuffrida, A Klugman, A Miyake, AC Parrot, AC Parrot, AD Baddeley, AJ Sankoh, AJ Verdejo-Garcia, AR Aron, B Kolb, BJ Casey, C Montgomery, Catharine Montgomery, DE Hinkle, DJA Moulden, DM McDowell, DT Stuss, E Gouzoulis-Mayfrank, GA Ricaurte, GA Ricaurte, HC Fox, HC Fox, HE Nelson, HS Levin, HV Curran, HV Curran, J Cole, J Cole, J Lehto, J Raven, J Rodgers, JE Fisk, JE Fisk, JJD Turner, JM Ng Cheong Ton, John E. Fisk, K McCardle, KI Bolla, L Reneman, L Reneman, LK Jacobsen, M Kiefer, M Linden Van der, M Wareing, M Wareing, M Wareing, ME Liechti, MI Posner, MJ Morgan, MJ Morgan, MJ Morgan, MW Johns, N Morris, N Solowij, N Solowij, NA Geusau Von, ND Volkow, Phillip N. Murphy, PS Goldman-Rakic, R Thomasius, R Verheul, RD Rogers, RD Rogers, RJ Croft, RL Cowan, RM Ruff, Russell Newcombe, S Bhattachary, SJ Kish, TA Salthouse, TL Strickland, TM Heffernan, UD McCann, Z Cohen   +73 more
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Allosteric Binding of MDMA to the Human Serotonin Transporter (hSERT) via Ensemble Binding Space Analysis with ΔG Calculations, Induced Fit Docking and Monte Carlo Simulations

Molecules, 2022
Despite the recent promising results of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) as a psychotherapeutic agent and its history of misuse, little is known about its molecular mode of action.
Ángel A. Islas, Thomas Scior
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Investigating the terminology used to describe Ecstasy [PDF]

, 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the changing use of language concerning the drug Ecstasy and their potential consequences over the last ten years.
Cole, Michael D., Guatam, Lata, Moore, Colleen, Turner, Alexandra   +3 more
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Alienata da’ sensi: reframing Bernini’s S. Teresa [PDF]

The Open Arts Journal, 2015
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa for the Cornaro Chapel (1647–52) is perhaps the artist’s most sensually charged creation, and the apparently physical nature of Teresa’s ecstasy is today even acknowledged in survey textbooks.
Andrea Bolland
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