Open AccessLongitudinal associations between amygdala reactivity and cannabis use in a large sample of adolescents
Author(s) -
Philip A. Spechler,
Bader Chaarani,
Catherine Orr,
Matthew D. Albaugh,
Nicholas Fontaine,
Stephen T. Higgins,
Tobias Banaschewski,
Arun L.W. Bokde,
Erin Burke Quinlan,
Sylvane Desrivières,
Herta Flor,
Antoine Grigis,
Penny Gowland,
Andreas Heinz,
Bernd Ittermann,
Éric Artiges,
Marie Laure Paillére Martinot,
Frauke Nees,
Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos,
Tomáš Paus,
Luise Poustka,
Sarah Hohmann,
Juliane H. Fröhner,
Michael N. Smolka,
Henrik Walter,
Robert Whelan,
Günter Schumann,
Hugh Garavan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychopharmacology/psychopharmacologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.378
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1432-2072
pISSN - 0033-3158
DOI - 10.1007/s00213-020-05624-7
Subject(s) - cannabis , amygdala , psychology , reactivity (psychology) , longitudinal study , cannabis dependence , cannabinoid , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , neuroscience , receptor , alternative medicine , pathology , cannabidiol
The amygdala is a key brain structure to study in relation to cannabis use as reflected by its high-density of cannabinoid receptors and functional reactivity to processes relevant to drug use. Previously, we identified a correlation between cannabis use in early adolescence and amygdala hyper-reactivity to angry faces (Spechler et al. 2015).