Worth the wait: Effects of age of onset of marijuana use on white matter and impulsivity

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 231, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1455-1465

  Gruber, Staci A ^a,b   Dahlgren, Mary Kathryn ^a   Sagar, Kelly A ^a   Gönenç, Atilla ^a,b   Lukas, Scott E ^a,b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Diffusion tensor imaging; Impulsivity; Marijuana; White matter

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARRATT IMPULSIVENESS SCALE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CANNABIS USE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG EFFECT; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; NEUROANATOMY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; CANNABIS SMOKING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898601930     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3326-z     Document Type: Article

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