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Maria Alice Fontes

1 paper in the library · 300 citations · publishing 2011

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Cannabis use before age 15 and subsequent executive functioning

The British Journal of Psychiatry May 31, 2011 Maria Alice Fontes, Karen I Bolla, Paulo Jannuzzi Cunha et al. 300 citations

BACKGROUND: Many studies have suggested that adolescence is a period of particular vulnerability to neurocognitive effects associated with substance misuse. However, few large studies have measured differences in cognitive performance between chronic cannabis users who started in early adolescence (before age 15) with those who started later. AIMS: To examine the executive functioning of...