anti-anxiety-memory-test
Context
An experiment on the effects of anti-anxiety medicine on memory recall when being primed with happy or sad memories. The participants were done on novel Islanders whom mimic real-life humans in response to external factors.
Drugs of interest (known-as) [Dosage 1, 2, 3]:
A - Alprazolam (Xanax, Long-term) [1mg/3mg/5mg]
T - Triazolam (Halcion, Short-term) [0.25mg/0.5mg/0.75mg]
S- Sugar Tablet (Placebo) [1 tab/2tabs/3tabs]
*Dosages follow a 1:1 ratio to ensure validity *Happy or Sad memories were primed 10 minutes prior to testing *Participants tested every day for 1 week to mimic addiction
Building the Case: Obstructive effects of Benzodiazepines (Anti-Anxiety Medicine):
- Long term adverse effects on Long Term Potentiation of synapses, metacognition and memory recall ability http://www.jstor.org/stable/43854146
Happy Memories:
- research shown positive memories to have a deeper and greater volume of striatum representation under an fMRI https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627314008484
Sad Memories:
- research shown sad memories invokes better memory recall for evolutionary purpose whereas, happy memories are more susceptible to false memories http://www.jstor.org/stable/40064315
Participants - all genders above 25+ years old to ensure a fully developed pre-frontal cortex, a region responsible for higher level cognition and memory recall.
Content
File contains information on participants drug treatment information along with their test scores.
Acknowledgements
Experiment was executed under the supervision of Mr. Almohalwas at UCLA. All aspects of the experiment such as experimental design, data collection and preprocessing was done from myself.
Inspiration
How does anti-anxiety medicine affect you differently by age? Is there a level of plateauing in effectiveness of anti-anxiety medicine - if so, at what point? Effect of anti-anxiety medicine on memory recall? Effectiveness of placebos in a test environment?
