Cannabis use in early adolescence: Evidence of amygdala hypersensitivity to signals of threat

Cannabis use in early adolescence: Evidence of amygdala hypersensitivity to signals of threat

Cannabis use in adolescence may be characterized by differences in the neural basis of affective processing. In this study, we used an fMRI affective face processing task to compare a large group (n = 70) of 14-year olds with a history of cannabis use to a group (n = 70) of never-using controls matc...

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Main Authors: Philip A. Spechler, Catherine A. Orr, Bader Chaarani, Kees-Jan Kan, Scott Mackey, Aaron Morton, Mitchell P. Snowe, Kelsey E. Hudson, Robert R. Althoff, Stephen T. Higgins, Anna Cattrell, Herta Flor, Frauke Nees, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L.W. Bokde, Robert Whelan, Christian Büchel, Uli Bromberg, Patricia Conrod, Vincent Frouin, Dimitri Papadopoulos, Jurgen Gallinat, Andreas Heinz, Henrik Walter, Bernd Ittermann, Penny Gowland, Tomáš Paus, Luise Poustka, Jean-Luc Martinot, Eric Artiges, Michael N. Smolka, Gunter Schumann, Hugh Garavan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Subjects:
Cannabis
Adolescence
Face processing
fMRI
Amygdala
Emotion
Faces
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929315000857

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