Academic staff member and alumna from Psychology department publish academic paper in leading international journal
Κολέγιο CITY College
Main Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece
18 January 2023

Academic staff member and alumna from Psychology department publish academic paper in leading international journal

An academic paper co-authored by Ms. Šeila Redžepagić, an alumnus of our Psychology department, and Dr. Aristea Ladas, Assistant Professor at our Psychology department, was recently published on Substance Use & Misuse, a leading international peer-reviewed journal on research concerning substance use and misuse.

The paper "Prospective Memory, Sustained attention and Response Inhibition in Polysubstance Users stable on Methadone Maintenance Treatment." concerns the effects of poly-substance addiction combined with Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) on the cognitive function of prospective memory and the functions modulating it, namely sustained attention and response inhibition.

Prospective memory and response inhibition are interrelated constructs, though studied separately in the drug addiction literature. Also, although sustained attention underlies response inhibition, its role in the relation between these functions has been largely neglected. The limited research on the cognitive effects of MMT further stresses the importance of investigating these effects. Therefore, the current study focused on possible effects of MMT combined with long-term drug abuse on all these functions. As predicted, (a) the MMT participants showed impairments in prospective memory, sustained attention and response inhibition and (b) prospective memory, response inhibition and sustained attention are related constructs. The results of this study could inform current rehabilitation and relapse prevention cognitive training practices.

 

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