Filbey, Francesca M and Aslan, Sina and Calhoun, Vince D and Spence, Jeffrey S and Damaraju, Eswar and Caprihan, Arvind and Segall, Judith (2014) Long-term effects of marijuana use on the brain. PNAS, 111, (47), pp. 16913-16918. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1415297111.
External website: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/11/05/14152...
The existing literature on the long-term effects of marijuana on the brain provides an inconsistent picture (i.e., presence or absence of structural changes) due to methodological differences across studies. We overcame these methodological issues by collecting multimodal measures in a large group of chronic marijuana using adults with a wide age range that allows for characterization of changes across lifespan without developmental or maturational biases as in other studies. Our findings suggest that chronic marijuana use is associated with complex neuroadaptive processes and that onset and duration of use have unique effects on these processes.
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