Effects of frequent cannabis use on hippocampal activity during an associative memory task

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 289-297

  Jager, Gerry ^a   Van Hell, Hendrika H ^a   De Win, Maartje M L ^b   Kahn, Rene S ^a   Van Den Brink, Wim ^b   Van Ree, Jan M ^a   Ramsey, Nick F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain function; Cannabis; fMRI; Hippocampus; Memory; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN;

EID: 33846523643     PISSN: 0924977X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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