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 ...
The present study asks (1) whether heavy drinking and marijuana use during adolescence are associated with delayed enrolment in PSE among high-school graduates, and (2) whether there are gender differences in these associations. Method: Participants were 480 Canadian adolescents interviewed five times...
The effect of marijuana on affective changes and interpersonal skills, including empathy, acceptance, warmth, and genuineness, was studied in 20 dyadic relationships in which the experimental subject smoking marijuana containing 6 mg of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and a placebo in separate trials. Mari...
it may also be more resilient to long-term effects compared to adults. Increased neural plasticity during this period could help protect adolescents from longer-term alcohol use-related cognitive impairments across multiple
that parental and peer attachments had significant and direct effects on adolescent marijuana use in the predicted (inverse) direction, prevention programs should focus on building and strengthening these relationships as a means of reducing deviant behaviors such as marijuana use among adolescents.doi...
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and structural breaks in adolescent marijuana use in the United States from 1991 to 2018, we used hierarchical age-period-cohort logistic regression models to distinguish temporal effects of marijuana use among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders from 28 waves of the Monitoring the Future survey (1991–...
These reports indicate that adolescents who excessively use substances, such as alcohol and marijuana, show deviant patterns of brain activation when they perform cognitive tasks. Substance use is thought to negatively impact a range of cognitive functions, including memory, attention, and visuospatial ...
Perceptions of Marijuana Use and Abstinence Among Adolescents through the Lens of PhotovoiceDana Harley, PhD
The rapid increase in use of electronic-cigarettes (e-cigarettes), especially among youth, raises the urgency for regulating bodies to make informed decisions, guidance, and policy on these products. This study evaluated cardiac function in an experiment