MDMA has been shown to cause brain damage in animals and especially in primates
They mentioned that too, but what they added was that those studies had different proportions of MDMA to body size given to animals, and there was also the element of their brains being quite different from our own. In studies done on humans, it was concluded that memory loss happened while on the drug, but then the brain went back to normal afterwards.
One of the scientists did say that there's still research to be done in MDMA use and ageing, i.e. how the brain copes as the person grows older, but the overall conclusion was that it was by far less harmful than alcohol, for example, whose negative effects on the brain cells is widely known and proven, yet is a legal drug.
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Date: 2008-02-08 09:17 pm (UTC)They mentioned that too, but what they added was that those studies had different proportions of MDMA to body size given to animals, and there was also the element of their brains being quite different from our own. In studies done on humans, it was concluded that memory loss happened while on the drug, but then the brain went back to normal afterwards.
One of the scientists did say that there's still research to be done in MDMA use and ageing, i.e. how the brain copes as the person grows older, but the overall conclusion was that it was by far less harmful than alcohol, for example, whose negative effects on the brain cells is widely known and proven, yet is a legal drug.