Involvement of the endocannabinoid system in reward processing in the human brain.
Psychopharmacology February 2012 Hendrika H Van Hell, Gerry Jager, Matthijs G. Bossong et al.
Disturbed reward processing in humans has been associated with a number of disorders, such as depression, addiction, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The endocannabinoid (eCB) system has been implicated in reward processing in animals, but in humans, the relation between eCB functioning and reward is less clear. The current study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to...