Altered prefrontal and insular cortical thickness in adolescent marijuana users

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 164-172

  Lopez Larson, Melissa P ^a,b,c   Bogorodzki, Piotr ^d   Rogowska, Jadwiga ^e   McGlade, Erin ^a,c   King, Jace B ^a   Terry, Janine ^a   Yurgelun Todd, Deborah ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VISN 19 MIRREC   (United States)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cortical thickness; Imaging; Marijuana

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; ONSET AGE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; URINE LEVEL; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952064182     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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