Gross morphological brain changes with chronic, heavy cannabis use

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 77-78

  Lorenzetti, Valentina ^a,b   Solowij, Nadia ^c,d   Whittle, Sarah ^b,e   Fornito, Alex ^a,b   Lubman, Dan I ^a   Pantelis, Christos ^b   Yücel, Murat ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d Schizophrenia Research Institute ^*  (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CANNABIS USE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CANNABIS SMOKING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; NEUROIMAGING; PITUITARY GLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920448489     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.151407     Document Type: Article

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