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Aggression
Study data from J. Clair and co-authors update knowledge of aggression
July 13th, 2009
"There is a paucity of research on the relationship between opiate use and aggression, and no previous study has examined this from a cognitive theoretical perspective, which views an individual's interpretation of information as a central mediator of their response to it. This study aimed to determine whether opiate users and ex-users differed from opiate-naive controls on a task which involved processing ambiguous sentences," scientists writing in the Journal of Psychopharmacology report. "In an independent group design, the interpretative bias task was administered to 64 participants: 21 opiate-dependent receiving methadone maintenance treatment, 21...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2009-07-13)
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