Decreased spontaneous eye blink rates in chronic cannabis users: Evidence for striatal cannabinoid-dopamine interactions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Kowal, Mikael A ^a   Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CANNABINOID; CANNABIS; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; SPONTANEOUS EYE BLINK RATE; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINKING; CANNABIS SMOKING; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

CANNABIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINKING; CANNABINOIDS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81355132231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026662     Document Type: Article

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