Behavioural Brain Research
August 1, 2025
C. Romein, Mika Mautner-Rohde, Karis Colyer-Patel et al.
Social factors significantly influence the initiation and progression of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder. Although cannabis is the most widely used drug globally, its social cognitive aspects and neural correlates have rarely been studied. To evaluate the findings to date and to guide future research, this systematic review assesses neuroimaging evidence on the associations between...
Current Opinion in Psychology
July 16, 2020
Emese Kroon, Lauren Kuhns, Janna Cousijn
The aim of this review is to discuss the most recent evidence for the short-term and long-term effects of cannabis on cognition. The evidence that cannabis intoxication is associated with short-term impairment across several basal cognitive domains, including learning and (episodic) memory, attentional control, and motor inhibition is increasing. However, evidence regarding the effects of...
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
January 24, 2019
Claire M. Gorey, Lauren Kuhns, Eleni Smaragdi et al.
118 citations
The impact of cannabis on the adolescent compared to adult brain is of interest to researchers and society alike. From a theoretical perspective, adolescence represents a period of both risk and resilience to the harms of cannabis use and cannabis use disorders. The aim of this systematic review is to provide a critical examination of the moderating role of age on the relationship between...
Emese Kroon, Yara Toenders, Lauren Kuhns et al.
preprint
Background. The global increase in lenient cannabis policy has been paralleled by reduced harm perception, which has been associated with cannabis use initiation and persistent use. However, it is unclear how cultural attitudes towards cannabis use might affect the brain processes underlying cannabis use. Methods. Resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) within and between the executive...
Tracy Brown, Che Liu, Emese Kroon et al.
Abstract Background Chronic pain is one of the most common reasons for medicinal cannabis use, yet the neural mechanisms underlying cannabis-related modulation of pain remain poorly understood. Both pain and cannabis use independently alter functional connectivity within the brain’s default mode network (DMN) that modulate interoception and self-referential aspects of pain processing. The goal...