The effect of chronic cannabinoids on broadband eeg neural oscillations in humans

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2184-2193

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

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory steady state response; cannabinoid; cannabis; EEG; neural oscillations; neural synchrony

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; CANNABIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG URINE LEVEL; DRUG USE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STEADY STATE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN WAVES; CANNABINOIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865221849     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.65     Document Type: Article

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