Everyday and prospective memory deficits in ecstasy/polydrug users

Hadjiefthyvoulou, Florentia; Fisk, John E.; Montgomery, Catharine; Bridges, Nikola Jane

doi:10.1177/0269881109359101

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“…62 It is unclear whether prospective memory deficits are specifically related to CNS effects of HIV infection or whether they are explained by other factors such as concomitant alcohol and drug use. 63 When comparing memory performance between seropositive and seronegative individuals, it is often difficult to control for the plethora of factors that can influence memory performance. These include common issues like sleep disturbance and/or use of sleep medications, fatigue, nutritional issues, and previous head injury.…”

Section: Memory Deficits In Hivmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of HIV infection and alcohol on cognition: a review

Selnes¹

2010

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Both alcohol and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) can affect the structure and function of the central nervous system. What they have in common is that the white matter of the brain is principally affected, and the direct neuronal injury does not appear to be a consequence of either HIV infection or alcohol use. There is evidence that the cognitive effects of both HIV and alcohol are potentially reversible with treatment or abstinence. There is only limited overlap in terms of the actual brain regions or structures affected, which may account for the observation that the combined effects of alcohol and HIV are largely additive. Although the incidence of alcohol-related Korsakoff amnesia has declined, alcohol use nonetheless is associated with decreased cognitive performance. In the context of HIV infection, very heavy alcohol use in individuals with advanced HIV disease appears to have synergistic effects. Because current studies on the combined effects of alcohol and HIV infection are limited by several issues, including the use of relatively small sample sizes and nonuniform definitions of what constitutes heavy alcohol use, our understanding of the neurological and behavioral complications of this problem still remains incomplete.

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Section: Memory Deficits In Hivmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of HIV infection and alcohol on cognition: a review

Selnes¹

2010

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“…The psychometric properties and construct validity of the EMQ have been extensively studied in healthy [59] and clinical populations [61][62][63]. Additionally the EMQ has been employed in studies with cannabis users [64], ecstasy and poly-drug/alcohol users [65] and the measure has demonstrated sensitivity to differential use of alcohol [66].…”

Section: Memory Functioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Problematic Alcohol Use Among Individuals with HIV: Relations with Everyday Memory Functioning and HIV Symptom Severity

et al. 2013

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Problematic alcohol use has been shown to negatively impact cognitive functions germane to achieving optimal HIV health outcomes. The present study, a secondary data analysis, examined the impact of problematic alcohol use on aspects of everyday memory functioning in a sample of 172 HIV-infected individuals (22 % female; M age = 48.37 years, SD = 8.64; 39 % Black/nonHispanic). Additionally, we tested whether self-reported memory functioning explained the relation between problematic alcohol use and HIV symptom severity. Results indicated that problematic patterns of alcohol use were associated with lower total memory functioning, retrieval (e.g., recall-difficulty) and memory for activity (e.g., what you did yesterday) and greater HIV symptom severity. Memory functioning mediated the relation between problematic alcohol use and HIV symptom severity. However, the direction of this relation was unclear as HIV symptom severity also mediated the relation between problematic alcohol use and memory functioning. Findings highlight the importance of integrated care for HIV and alcohol use disorders and suggest that routine alcohol and cognitive screenings may bolster health outcomes among this vulnerable population.

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“…This will also allow for the increasing prevalence of polysubstance use to be addressed more effectively. For example, while less than half of Fisk et al's (2005) ecstasy users were also using cocaine, the increased use of this drug among young adult recreational users has meant that it is not unusual to find that up to cannabis (e.g., Hadjiefthyvoulou et al 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%