Fronto-striatal effective connectivity of working memory in adults with cannabis use disorder

The expanding decriminalization of cannabis in the United States has brought forth debate and scrutiny regarding potentially detrimental cognitive effects of cannabis. Both animal (Rubino and Parolaro, 2014) and human (Schweinsburg et al., 2008a; Martin-Santos et al., 2010; Wrege et al., 2014) studies show that cannabis use disorder (CUD) is associated with altered working memory function (Solowij and Battisti, 2008; Crean et al., 2011; Schoeler and Bhattacharyya, 2013) and other cognitive dysfunction (Quickfall and Crockford, 2006; Bhattacharyya et al., 2012; Batalla et al., 2013).

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - June 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Liangsuo Ma, Joel L. Steinberg, James M. Bjork, Lori Keyser-Marcus, Jasmin Vassileva, Min Zhu, Venkatesh Ganapathy, Qin Wang, Edward L. Boone, Sergi Ferr é, Warren K. Bickel, F. Gerard Moeller Source Type: research