Abstract
Background and aim: Cerebral areas related to executive functions, during adolescence and early youth encounter with structural and functional changes and fluctuations that expose adolescents to ma...
Highlights
You would be surprised if we say that there is a group of mental disorders that annihilates billions of dollars destroying US residents’ lives annually and kills more than 500,000,000 people and causes street and homeless crime and violence
The sample of the study consisted of 30 normal students and 30 addicted young people under 21-year old who referred to addiction treatment camps of Babolsar
According to the group of addicts, including young people under 21-years old who referring to addiction treatment camps, and because the number of this age group was not enough, sampling method was used, it should be noted that addicted people stay in the treatment camps for 40 days, and in this study, over a period of 5 months, 30 subjects were selected from the group of addicts and all the following criteria were considered as exclusion criteria for the study groups: having a history of psychiatric disorders, mental health tests, history of head trauma and cerebral injuries, having a physical disability which creates disorder in the performance of the tests, brain tumor, heart disease and drug abuse among students
Summary
You would be surprised if we say that there is a group of mental disorders that annihilates billions of dollars destroying US residents’ lives annually and kills more than 500,000,000 people and causes street and homeless crime and violence. Drug use reaches a climax in people between 19to 22-year old and declines in people between 20 and 30 years Young people in this age before committing themselves to the responsibilities of youth, like to try many more experiences, and among them it is more likely than younger and older people to smoke, consume marijuana and stimulant drugs. The present study compares the executive functions (Miyake model) between pre-university male students and young addicted people under 21-years old who referred to addiction treatment camps. Findings of the study: data analysis indicated that there is a significant difference between the executive functions of young addicted people under 21-year old who are in addiction treatment camps and healthy pre-university students. Addicts under 21-year old have weaker executive functions to update working memory, response inhibition and set shifting compared to pre-university students. It can be concluded that drug use can weaken the executive
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