Long-term effects of chronic khat use: Impaired inhibitory control

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue JAN, 2011, Pages

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Ruiz, Manuel J ^a,b   van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^c   Bajo, Maria Teresa ^b   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic use; Dopamine; Khat; Long term effect; SSRT; Stop signal task

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958798264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00219     Document Type: Article

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