A study of the Provincial reveals that cocaine dependents are more impulsive people.
for research, specialists have implemented the new technologies.
Castellón, 2011-October A study conducted by researchers at the Hospital Provincial de Castellón reveals that cocaine-dependent persons are more impulsive, which are not addicted to this substance.
A group of researchers at the Hospital Provincial de Castellón in Barcelona, in the II International Congress of Dual pathology, presented the results of a research project with people dependent on cocaine.
The relationship that exists between the impulsivity and cocaine dependence should study from three perspectives: biological, psychological and social. This study has attempted to integrate the first two.
Thus, with this perspective of integral vision comes this study which involved 140 people, of which 105 were dependent on cocaine and other healthy people who served as a comparison.
The profile type of cocaine-dependent shows that the majority were male, unmarried, half of them living with the family of origin and only 40 per cent has completed the first stage of their secondary studies.
Confirmed in the study that many dependent on cocaine have problems with alcohol and 60 percent, moreover, are tobacco smokers.
After the application of new technologies such as inhibiting pre-pulso – technique that measures the eye flicker before a sound that frightens them-, the study has shown that different types of cocaine-dependent differences in impulsivity can be detected.
The Provincial researchers have shown that impulsivity is not equal in healthy subjects than in addicts, which is much higher in addicts.
In addition, neither is the same in all addicts, being greater motor impulsivity in those with a personality disorder, in addition to the cocaine dependence is known as dual pathology ”.
