Abnormal medial prefrontal cortex activity in heavy cannabis users during conscious emotional evaluation.
Psychopharmacology March 1, 2016 Michael J Wesley, Joshua A Lile, Colleen Hanlon et al.
Long-term heavy cannabis users (cannabis users) who are not acutely intoxicated have diminished subconscious neural responsiveness to affective stimuli. This study sought to determine if abnormal processing extends to the conscious evaluation of emotional stimuli. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine brain activity as cannabis users (N = 16) and non-cannabis-using...