Does cannabis use predict psychometric schizotypy via aberrant salience?
Schizophrenia Research April 6, 2020 Colm O’Tuathaigh, Christopher Dawes, Andrea Bickerdike et al. 13 citations
Cannabis can induce acute psychotic symptoms in healthy individuals and exacerbate pre-existing psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. Inappropriate salience allocation is hypothesised to be central to the association between dopamine dysregulation and psychotic symptoms. This study examined whether cannabis use is associated with self-reported salience dysfunction and schizotypal...