Which comes first, first episode psychosis or cannabis use?
The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter November 1, 2024 DOI: 10.1002/cbl.30825 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | News report Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Cannabis |
| Key points | The account states that Steven Batki presented his conclusions on the relationship between adolescent cannabis use and first-episode psychosis, including the question of which precedes the other, at a plenary session attended by roughly 1,000 people. The text does not report what those conclusions were. |
Abstract
The typical conundrum with cannabis use by adolescents and first episode psychosis — which came first? — was displaced by Steven Batki, M.D., in a plenary session at the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders (CCSAD) in September. Bakti, who is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, presented his conclusions allowing the audience of some 1,000 to ask questions as he went along.