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Hylke K E Vervaeke

3 papers in the library · 1 citation · publishing 2007-2008

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Incidental use of ecstasy: no evidence for harmful effects on cognitive brain function in a prospective fMRI study.

Psychopharmacology August 2007 Gerry Jager, Maartje M. L. de Win, Hylke K E Vervaeke et al.

Heavy ecstasy use in humans has been associated with cognitive impairments and changes in cognitive brain function supposedly due to damage to the serotonin system. There is concern that even a single dose of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine may be neurotoxic, but very little is known about the consequences of a low dose of ecstasy for cognitive brain function. The objective of the study was...

How to find future ecstasy-users: targeted and snowball sampling in an ethically sensitive context.

Addictive Behaviors August 2007 Hylke K E Vervaeke, Dirk J Korf, Annemieke Benschop et al.

This article documents the design and the sampling procedures of a prospective longitudinal multidisciplinary study on the neurotoxicity of ecstasy (MDMA): the Netherlands XTC Toxicity Study (NeXT). Targeted and snowball sampling was used to recruit 188 respondents who were ecstasy-naive at baseline. All respondents completed baseline questionnaires and underwent medical and neuropsychological...