E Mouchlianitis

Salience attribution and its relationship to cannabis-induced psychotic symptoms.

Psychological Medicine December 2016 Michael Bloomfield, E Mouchlianitis, C J A Morgan et al.

Cannabis is a widely used drug associated with increased risk for psychosis. The dopamine hypothesis of psychosis postulates that altered salience processing leads to psychosis. We therefore tested the hypothesis that cannabis users exhibit aberrant salience and explored the relationship between aberrant salience and dopamine synthesis capacity. We tested 17 cannabis users and 17 age- and...