Perseverative Responding in Nigerian Chronic Alcohol and Marijuana Users.

ABSTRACT: Background: Chronic consumption of alcohol and marijuana, especially when initiated at an early age, has been implicated in cognitive alterations in the domain of executive functioning. Despite the robustness of this finding in Western populations, its generalizability to other cultural contexts is largely unknown. In this study, we examined whether the regular use of alcohol or marijuana use relates to impaired executive functioning in male students of a Nigerian university. Methods: Chronic alcohol users (n = 39), chronic marijuana users (n = 35) and drug-abstinent control participants (n = 40) recruited through snow-ball sampling technique completed a computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (cWCST). As an established measure of executiv

SUBMITTER: Nweze T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7116233 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature