Hippocampal remodelling after MDMA neurotoxicity: a single case study.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry 2009 Francesco Nifosì, Andrea Martinuzzi, Tommaso Toffanin et al.
Acute ingestion of MDMA (ecstasy) causes a transient marked increase in serotonin and dopamine at central synapses. Recent studies demonstrated that MDMA induces damage of serotonergic nerve terminals and alters hippocampal processing. Pronounced cognitive deficits in MDMA users affect learning and memory abilities. This pattern of predominant and long-lasting memory dysfunction suggests that...