Acute effects of ecstasy on memory are more extensive than chronic effects

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 225-230

  Shariati, Mohamad Bakhtiar Hesam ^a   Sohrabi, Maryam ^b   Shahidi, Siamak ^c   Nikkhah, Ali ^c   Mirzaei, Fatemeh ^b   Medizadeh, Mehdi ^d   Asl, Sara Soleimani ^a,b  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ecstasy; Learning; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905903208     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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