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Nicholas A. Allgaier

2 papers in the library · 100 citations · publishing 2019

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Investigation of Psychiatric and Neuropsychological Correlates of Default Mode Network and Dorsal Attention Network Anticorrelation in Children.

Cerebral Cortex December 18, 2019 Matthew Owens, D. Yuan, S. Hahn et al. preprint

The default mode network (DMN) and dorsal attention network (DAN) demonstrate an intrinsic "anticorrelation" in healthy adults, which is thought to represent the functional segregation between internally and externally directed thought. Reduced segregation of these networks has been proposed as a mechanism for cognitive deficits that occurs in many psychiatric disorders, but this association...

Grey Matter Volume Differences Associated with Extremely Low Levels of Cannabis Use in Adolescence

Journal of Neuroscience January 14, 2019 Catherine Orr, Philip A. Spechler, Zhipeng Cao et al. 100 citations

Rates of cannabis use among adolescents are high, and are increasing concurrent with changes in the legal status of marijuana and societal attitudes regarding its use. Recreational cannabis use is understudied, especially in the adolescent period when neural maturation may make users particularly vulnerable to the effects of Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on brain structure. In the current...