Brain reward function in people who use cannabis: a systematic review
Emillie Beyer,
Govinda Poudel,
Stephanie Antonopoulos
et al.
Abstract:RationaleCannabis is one of the most widely used psychoactive substances globally. Cannabis use can be associated with alterations of reward processing, including affective flattening, apathy, anhedonia, and lower sensitivity to natural rewards in conjunction with higher sensitivity to cannabis-related rewards. Such alterations have been posited to be driven by changes in underlying brain reward pathways, as per prominent neuroscientific theories of addiction. Functional neuroimaging (fMRI) studies have examin… Show more
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