Verbal Ecstasy

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Download or read book Ecstasy (mdma) Exposure and Neuropsychological Functioning written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use of ecstasy (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA) is becoming an increasing health problem across the United States. Numerous studies have demonstrated that ecstasy is a selective serotonin neurotoxin in several animal species and in humans. However, until recently, the cognitive consequences of ecstasy use have been relatively unknown. Studies to date have consistently demonstrated deficits in verbal memory among ecstasy users; while only some have examined impairments in visual memory, working memory, abstract reasoning, planning, attention, and problem solving. To date, there are no published studies that adequately assess the effects of ecstasy exposure on cognitive functioning while controlling for other drugs of abuse, gender, and demographic variables known to be associated with cognitive performance. The primary goal of the proposed project was to assess the relationship between exposure to the psychoactive drug ecstasy and cognitive functioning among 65 men and women. It was hypothesized that increased lifetime and past year ecstasy exposure would be related to poorer performance on cognitive tasks after controlling statistically for consumption of other drugs and potential confounding factors such as age, education, gender, premorbid intelligence, and ethnicity. The primary finding was that increased ecstasy exposure was significantly related to poorer verbal memory and learning ability, while no such relationship was found between executive functioning. Furthermore, gender was found to moderate the relationship with ecstasy exposure and cognitive functioning, including verbal memory retention, visual memory ability, working memory, visual fluency, and cognitive inhibition.

Author : Kimberly M. Cramer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Effect of Concomitant Ecstasy-marijuana Use on Auditory Verbal Learning and Memory Performance written by Kimberly M. Cramer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Holland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594778728
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecstasy: The Complete Guide written by Julie Holland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The world's leading experts on Ecstasy assess its therapeutic potential, social implications, and the dangers of unsupervised use. • Includes chapters by Andrew Weil, Ralph Metzner, Douglas Rushkoff, Rabbi Zalman Schachter, Rick Doblin, and others. • An ideal guide for parents and educators seeking a credible source of information. Use of the drug Ecstasy, once confined to the teen rave scene and college campuses, is exploding across America, from high schools to upscale clubs. Described by users as the most intense euphoria they know and by detractors as a cause of brain damage and even death, Ecstasy has generated unprecedented levels of interest-and misinformation. Written by the world's leading experts on MDMA, Ecstasy: The Complete Guide takes the first unbiased look at the risks and the benefits of this unique drug, including the science of how it works; its promise as a treatment for depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, and other illnesses; and how to minimize the risk of illicit use. Whether you are a raver, a concerned parent, or a professional wanting the most recent reports on MDMA research, Ecstasy: The Complete Guide provides the answers you need.

Author : Colleen Shantz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139478370
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul in Ecstasy written by Colleen Shantz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many readers of Paul's letters recognize how important his experience was to his life and thought, Biblical scholars have not generally addressed this topic head-on. Colleen Shantz argues that they have been held back both by a bias against religious ecstasy and by the limits of the Biblical texts: how do you responsibly access someone else's experience, particularly experience as unusual and debated as religious ecstasy? And how do you account responsibly for the role of experience in that person's thought? Paul in Ecstasy pursues these questions through a variety of disciplines - most notably neuroscience. This study provides cogent explanations for bewildering passages in Paul's letters, outlines a much greater influence of such experience in Paul's life and letters, and points to its importance in Christian origins.

Author : Lillian Glass
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028627410
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Verbal Self-defense written by Lillian Glass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on identifying the verbal bullies in one's life, determining the difference between abuse and "kidding around," turning negative comments to one's advantage, and delivering verbal defense appropriately and confidently

Author : Stephen Halliwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199570566
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Ecstasy and Truth written by Stephen Halliwell and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias's Helen, Isocrates' treatises, Philodemus' On Poems, and Longinus On the Sublime. The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture.

Author : Eisner
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780914171683
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecstasy written by Eisner and published by Ronin Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of ecstasy, its discovery and use and social implications.

Author : Amanda Parker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135430721
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory written by Amanda Parker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in techniques available to memory researchers have led to a rapid expansion in the field of cognitive neuroscience of memory. This book provides accessible coverage of four key areas of recent advance, including research on functional imaging, electrophysiological and lesion studies, and developments from the computational modelling approach. The first section reviews functional imaging studies in humans, with particular emphasis on how imaging methods have clarified the cortical areas involved in memory formation and retrieval. The second section describes electrophysiological and lesion research in monkeys, where lesion and disconnection studies are rapidly adding to our knowledge of both information processing and modulatory aspects of memory formation. In the third section, electrophysiological and lesion studies in rats are reviewed allowing for a detailed study of the role of novelty and exploration in memory formation. The final section reviews current research in computational modelling which has allowed the development of new theoretical and experimental approaches to the study of memory encoding and retrieval. This volume draws together the current developments in each field, allowing the synthesis of ideas and providing converging evidence from a range of sources. It will be a useful resource for both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology, as well as researchers in the field and anyone with an interest in cognitive neuroscience.

Author : Roger J.R. Levesque
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441916946
Total Pages : 3161 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Adolescence written by Roger J.R. Levesque and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 3161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Encyclopedia of Adolescence – with entries presented in easy-to-access A to Z format – serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. By making full use of Springer’s print and online flexibility, the Encyclopedia is at the forefront of efforts to advance the field by pushing and creating new boundaries and areas of study that further our understanding of adolescents and their place in society. Substantively, the Encyclopedia draws from four major areas of research relating to adolescence. The first broad area includes research relating to "Self, Identity and Development in Adolescence". This area covers research relating to identity, from early adolescence through emerging adulthood; basic aspects of development (e.g., biological, cognitive, social); and foundational developmental theories. In addition, this area focuses on various types of identity: gender, sexual, civic, moral, political, racial, spiritual, religious, and so forth. The second broad area centers on "Adolescents’ Social and Personal Relationships". This area of research examines the nature and influence of a variety of important relationships, including family, peer, friends, sexual and romantic as well as significant nonparental adults. The third area examines "Adolescents in Social Institutions". This area of research centers on the influence and nature of important institutions that serve as the socializing contexts for adolescents. These major institutions include schools, religious groups, justice systems, medical fields, cultural contexts, media, legal systems, economic structures, and youth organizations. "Adolescent Mental Health" constitutes the last major area of research. This broad area of research focuses on the wide variety of human thoughts, actions, and behaviors relating to mental health, from psychopathology to thriving. Major topic examples include deviance, violence, crime, pathology (DSM), normalcy, risk, victimization, disabilities, flow, and positive youth development.

Author : David Groome
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317556526
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology written by David Groome and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers an accessible review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories, and models. Using real-world scenarios and engaging everyday examples this book offers clear explanations of how the findings of cognitive psychologists have been put to use. The book explores all of the major areas of cognitive psychology, including attention, perception, memory, thinking and decision making, as well as some of the factors that affect cognitive processes, such as drugs and biological cycles. Now in full colour, this new edition has been thoroughly updated to include cutting-edge research and theories. There are also new chapters on perceptual errors and accidents, the influence of emotion, and the role of cognitive factors in music and sport. Written by well-respected experts in the field, this textbook will appeal to all undergraduate students of cognitive psychology, as well as professionals working in the areas covered in the book, such as education, police work, sport, and music.