Preliminary findings demonstrating latent effects of early adolescent marijuana use onset on cortical architecture

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-22

  Filbey, Francesca M ^a   McQueeny, Tim ^a   DeWitt, Samuel J ^a   Mishra, Virendra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Advance MRI LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cortical thickness; FreeSurfer; Gyrification; Marijuana; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CANNABIS USE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DORSAL FRONTAL CORTEX; DORSOLATERAL FRONTAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY WHITE MATTER BORDER CONTRAST; HUMAN; LOCAL GYRIFICATION INDEX; MALE; MEDIAL ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GRAY MATTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84983499593     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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