Assessment of forebrain-dependent trace eyeblink conditioning in chronic cannabis users

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 439, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 264-268

  Edwards, Chad R ^a   Skosnik, Patrick D ^a   Steinmetz, Adam B ^a   Vollmer, Jennifer M ^a   O'Donnell, Brian F ^a   Hetrick, William P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cannabis; CB1 receptor; Hippocampus; N100; THC; Trace eyeblink conditioning

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 44649180413     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.102     Document Type: Article

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