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More good reasons not to take ecstasy!
[mis à jour le 15 June 2007 à 15h43]
“Taking a single dose of ecstasy can be linked to a decline in memory associated with language”! For those who might still have had doubts, it has now been shown that users of these “recreational pills” are placing themselves at very serious risk of damage that is, in fact, irreparable.
Professor Thelma Schilt and her colleagues (at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands) monitored the same 188 volunteers who had already taken part in a study on the effects of ecstasy that was published in November 2006. At that time the authors had observed “a change in the architecture of brain cells”.
Further research has made it possible to refine these results. “In certain cases, taking a single ecstasy pill proved to be extremely deleterious for the memory. We have in fact noted a destruction of the nerve cells that interact with serotonin”. Which is far from insignificant! Let’s remember that serotonin is a hormone that affects our mood, thinking, learning and, of course, memory. Clearly ecstasy has yet more (nasty) secrets to reveal…
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