Article ; Online: The limited impact that cocaine use patterns have on neurocognitive functioning in individuals with cocaine use disorder.
Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England)
2017 Volume 31, Issue 8, Page(s) 989–995
Abstract: It is well-documented in the literature that cocaine use is associated with neurocognitive impairment. The manner in which patterns of cocaine use, such as years of use, recent use over the past month, and daily amount of cocaine use, moderate ... ...
| Abstract | It is well-documented in the literature that cocaine use is associated with neurocognitive impairment. The manner in which patterns of cocaine use, such as years of use, recent use over the past month, and daily amount of cocaine use, moderate neurocognition has been studied in a relatively piecemeal manner. Hence, the purpose of the study was to evaluate whether cocaine use patterns modulate neurocognition in individuals with cocaine use disorder. Cocaine users who were cocaine-negative ( n=125) were divided into tertiles based on cocaine use patterns and the performances of the highest and lowest groups were compared on the following cognitive measures: Continuous Performance Task-II, n-back, and Hopkins Verbal Learning Task-Revised. Participants with cocaine use disorder who used for more years (25.2±0.6 versus 10.1±0.6 years; mean±standard error of the mean) and who had more recent cocaine use over the past month (26.3±0.5 versus 6.0±0.6 days) did not differ significantly on any of the neurocognitive variables when compared to those with use patterns of shorter duration and less frequency (all p's >0.05). Lastly, participants reporting the greatest amount daily cocaine use (1.8±0.0 g) demonstrated better performance on an auditory working memory task when compared to those with the lowest daily use (0.7±0.0 g; p=0.04). While one might expect that individuals who used greater amounts of cocaine over longer periods of time would demonstrate relatively poorer performance on measures of neurocognition, particularly in the initial phase of abstinence, our findings did not confirm this. While speculative, a potential explanation for these findings is that after an individual uses cocaine for a certain number of years, or uses a specific amount over time, then the deleterious effects of cocaine on neurocognition stabilizes, and increased duration of cocaine use does not further exacerbate those impairments. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Adolescent ; Adult ; Cocaine-Related Disorders/complications ; Cocaine-Related Disorders/psychology ; Cognition Disorders/chemically induced ; Cognition Disorders/complications ; Cognition Disorders/psychology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Time Factors ; Young Adult |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2017-07-11 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural |
| ZDB-ID | 639313-5 |
| ISSN | 1461-7285 ; 0269-8811 |
| ISSN (online) | 1461-7285 |
| ISSN | 0269-8811 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0269881117715606 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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