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Long-Term Effects of Chronic Khat Use: Impaired Inhibitory Control

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
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Title
Long-Term Effects of Chronic Khat Use: Impaired Inhibitory Control
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00219
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Authors

Lorenza S. Colzato, Manuel J. Ruiz, Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg, Maria Teresa Bajo, Bernhard Hommel

Abstract

So far no studies have systematically looked into the cognitive consequences of khat use. This study compared the ability to inhibit and execute behavioral responses in adult khat users and khat-free controls, matched in terms of age, race, gender distribution, level of intelligence, alcohol and cannabis consumption. Response inhibition and response execution were measured by a stop-signal paradigm. Results show that users and non-users are comparable in terms of response execution but users need significantly more time to inhibit responses to stop signals than non-users.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Spain 1 1%
Argentina 1 1%
Unknown 64 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Student > Master 8 12%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 11 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 21 31%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 10%
Chemistry 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 12 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 November 2023.
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#1,053,280
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#2,236
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#4,760
of 194,773 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#29
of 242 outputs
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