Surapi Bhairavi Wijayendran

The effects of cannabis use on salience attribution: a systematic review.

Acta Neuropsychiatrica February 2018 Surapi Bhairavi Wijayendran, Aisling O'Neill, Sagnik Bhattacharyya

The relationship between cannabis use and the onset of psychosis is well established. Aberrant salience processing is widely thought to underpin many of these symptoms. Literature explicitly investigating the relationship between aberrant salience processing and cannabis use is scarce; with those few studies finding that acute tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) administration (the main psychoactive...