Weed or Wheel! fMRI, Behavioural, and Toxicological Investigations of How Cannabis Smoking Affects Skills Necessary for Driving

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Battistella, Giovanni ^a   Fornari, Eleonora ^a   Thomas, Aurélien ^b   Mall, Jean Frédéric ^a   Chtioui, Haithem ^a   Appenzeller, Monique ^a   Annoni, Jean Marie ^c   Favrat, Bernard ^b   Maeder, Philippe ^a   Giroud, Christian ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANNABIS SMOKING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRIVING ABILITY; DROWSINESS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE TRACKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TACHYCARDIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; TOXICOLOGY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CANNABIS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; OXYGEN; PERFUSION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; YOUNG ADULT;

CANNABIS; CANNABIS SATIVA;

EID: 84871777913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052545     Document Type: Article

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