This paper considers the effects of marijuana on personality development during adolescence, integrating psychoanalytic views of development, information from neuroscience research, and recent social realities including legalization of marijuana in many states. The psychoanalytic treatment of a 16-year-old ...
Policy makers are particularly concerned that legalization for either medicinal or recreational purposes will encourage marijuana use among youth. Repeated marijuana use during adolescence may lead to long-lasting changes in brain function that adversely affect educational, professional, and social outcomes....
Some studies suggest regularmarijuana use in adolescence is associated with altered connectivity and reduced volume of specific brain regions involved in a broad range of executive functions such as memory, learning, and impulse control compared to people who do not use. Some studies have also ...
Similarly, in a large longitudinal study of African-American and Puerto Rican people, four trajectories of marijuana use from adolescence to adulthood were identified: none/low use; maturing out; late onset; and chronic users (Brook et al., 2011). In comparisons between the none/low use group...
Dr. Levy and other physicians have also seen a rise in chronic psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, in which they believe cannabis was a contributing factor. Marijuana use can affect brain development, particularly during the critical period of adolescence through age 25. This is also the ...
Marijuana Motivations Across Adolescence: Impacts on Use and Consequences but rarely consider motives to abstain.We examined how both adolescent marijuana abstinence motives and use motives contribute to marijuana use and problems at... KG Anderson,M Sitney,HR White - 《Substance Use & Misuse》 被引...
Some studies suggestchronic, heavy recreational use can harm cognitive function—especially if that use begins during adolescence. But research shows adult medical cannabis patients may experience some cognitive benefits. Gruber was the senior author of astudy published 2018 in theFrontiers of Pharmacology...
"During adolescence, there is a tremendous amount of neuroplasticity," she said. "Regular use of marijuana is likely to have an adverse effect on the way the human brain gets connected and organized." This may explain why frequent use by teens is linked to lower IQ and higher odds of drop...
Adolescent substance use interferes with educational attainment (Fleming et al., 2012), but its relationship to timing of enrolment has not been studied. The present study asks (1) whether heavy drinking and marijuana use during adolescence are associated with delayed enrolment in PSE among high-...
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