{"id":3931,"date":"2009-08-07T11:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/3931\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T14:25:45","slug":"3931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/3931\/","title":{"rendered":"Early onset cannabis use related to brain damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">There is growing evidence suggesting that<br \/>\nadolescence is a key period for neuronal maturation. The<br \/>\nresults of the current study support that heavy cannabis<br \/>\nuse during adolescence is related to brain damage in areas<br \/>\nknown to be involved in ongoing development during late<br \/>\nadolescence, particularly in the fronto-temporal connection<br \/>\nvia arcuate fasciculus. These results suggest that earlyonset<br \/>\nsubstance use may affect the development of fronto-<br \/>\ntemporal white matter circuits, potentially resulting in<br \/>\ndisturbed memory, and deficits in executive and affective<br \/>\nfunctioning (Lubman et al., 2007). Since five of the HCU<br \/>\nsubjects were alcohol abusers, conclusions from our report<br \/>\nshould be considered preliminary as the DTI findings<br \/>\nreported here may be due to combination of alcohol and<br \/>\nmarijuana use. Adolescence, however, being marked as a<br \/>\ncritical time for brain maturation and development, may<br \/>\nbe a vulnerable period to partake in risky behaviors, such<br \/>\nas marijuana or alcohol use, for both physiological<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: extract from\u00a0 Journal of Psychiatric Research 43 (2009) 189\u2013204<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is growing evidence suggesting that adolescence is a key period for neuronal maturation. The results of the current study support that heavy cannabis use during adolescence is related to brain damage in areas known to be involved in ongoing development during late adolescence, particularly in the fronto-temporal connection via arcuate fasciculus. These results suggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-and-behaviour","category-cannabis-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}