Neural responses to subliminally presented cannabis and other emotionally evocative cues in cannabis-dependent individuals.
Psychopharmacology April 2014 Reagan R Wetherill, Anna Rose Childress, Kanchana Jagannathan et al.
Addiction theories posit that drug-related cues maintain and contribute to drug use and relapse. Indeed, our recent study in cocaine-dependent patients demonstrated that subliminally presented cocaine-related stimuli activate reward neurocircuitry without being consciously perceived. Activation of reward neurocircuitry may provoke craving and perhaps prime an individual for subsequent...