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Marco C.g. Merlo

2 papers in the library · 44 citations · publishing 2007-2019

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Comparing Mental Health across Distinct Groups of Users of Psychedelics, MDMA, Psychostimulants, and Cannabis

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs March 6, 2019 Ansgar Rougemont-Bücking, Henrik Jungaberle, Milan Scheidegger et al. 6 citations

Differences in mental health (MH) of users of distinct psychoactive substances have been shown. Both substance use (SU) and MH in users are influenced by stressful life events. This study compared MH parameters in distinct groups of substance users and evaluated the impact of stress factors on these outcomes. Data stem from the longitudinal Swiss Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors...

Visual scan paths in first-episode schizophrenia and cannabis-induced psychosis

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience July 1, 2007 Philip J. Benson, Ute Leonards, Robert Lothian et al. 38 citations

OBJECTIVE: Patterns of successive saccades and fixations (scan paths) that are made while viewing images are often spatially restricted in schizophrenia, but the relation with cannabis-induced psychosis has not been examined. We used higher-order statistical methods to examine spatiotemporal characteristics of scan paths to determine whether viewing behaviour was distinguishable on a continuum....