Effects of cannabis use on human behavior, including cognition, motivation, and psychosis: a review

ND Volkow, JM Swanson, AE Evins, LE DeLisi… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
With a political debate about the potential risks and benefits of cannabis use as a backdrop,
the wave of legalization and liberalization initiatives continues to spread. Four states …

Environmental risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and their relationship to genetic risk: current knowledge and future directions

N Robinson, SE Bergen - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe psychiatric disorders which result
from complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors. It is well-established that …

Association of cannabis use during adolescence with neurodevelopment

MD Albaugh, J Ottino-Gonzalez, A Sidwell… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Animal studies have shown that the adolescent brain is sensitive to disruptions
in endocannabinoid signaling, resulting in altered neurodevelopment and lasting behavioral …

Gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia: a literature review

MH Wahbeh, D Avramopoulos - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness with a strong genetic component that is the
subject of extensive research. Despite the high heritability, it is well recognized that non …

Studying neuroanatomy using MRI

JP Lerch, AJW Van Der Kouwe, A Raznahan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The study of neuroanatomy using imaging enables key insights into how our brains function,
are shaped by genes and environment, and change with development, aging and disease …

Traditional marijuana, high‐potency cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids: increasing risk for psychosis

RM Murray, H Quigley, D Quattrone… - World …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Epidemiological evidence demonstrates that cannabis use is associated with an increased
risk of psychotic outcomes, and confirms a dose‐response relationship between the level of …

Gene-environment interaction and psychiatric disorders: Review and future directions

E Assary, JP Vincent, R Keers, M Pluess - Seminars in cell & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Empirical studies suggest that psychiatric disorders result from a complex interplay between
genetic and environmental factors. Most evidence for such gene-environment interaction …

Evidence for the risks and consequences of adolescent cannabis exposure

A Levine, K Clemenza, M Rynn, J Lieberman - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective This review of the scientific literature examines the potential adult sequelae of
exposure to cannabis and related synthetic cannabinoids in adolescence. We examine the …

Cannabis use and risk of schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomization study

J Vaucher, BJ Keating, AM Lasserre, W Gan… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Cannabis use is observationally associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia, but
whether the relationship is causal is not known. Using a genetic approach, we took 10 …

Examining the independent and joint effects of molecular genetic liability and environmental exposures in schizophrenia: results from the EUGEI study

S Guloksuz, LK Pries, P Delespaul, G Kenis… - World …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Schizophrenia is a heritable complex phenotype associated with a background risk
involving multiple common genetic variants of small effect and a multitude of environmental …