Alcohol and relatively pure cannabis use, but not schizotypy, are associated with cognitive attenuations


Autoria(s): Herzig D.A.; Nutt D.; Mohr C.
Data(s)

2014

Resumo

Elevated schizotypy relates to similar cognitive attenuations as seen in psychosis and cannabis/polydrug use. Also, in schizotypal populations cannabis and polydrug (including licit drug) use are enhanced.These cognitive attenuations may therefore either be a behavioral marker of psychotic (-like) symptoms or the consequence of enhanced drug use in schizotypal populations.To elucidate this, we investigated the link between cognitive attenuation and cannabis use in largely pure cannabis users (35) and non-using controls (48), accounting for the potential additional influence of both schizotypy and licit drug use (alcohol, nicotine). Cognitive attenuations commonly seen in psychosis were associated with cannabis and alcohol use, but not schizotypy. Future studies should therefore consider (i) non-excessive licit substance use (e.g., alcohol) in studies investigating the effect of cannabis use on cognition and (ii) both enhanced illicit and licit substance use in studies investigating cognition in schizotypal populations.

Identificador

https://serval.unil.ch/?id=serval:BIB_032F06962179

isbn:1664-0640

http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00133/abstract

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00133

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en

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Fonte

Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 5, no. 133, pp. 1

Palavras-Chave #polydrug use, licit drug use, cognition, schizotypy, psychosis-proneness
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article

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