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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-6-24
pubmed:abstractText
The effects of marijuana on brain perfusion and internal timing were assessed using [15O] water PET in occasional and chronic users. Twelve volunteers who smoked marijuana recreationally about once weekly, and 12 volunteers who smoked daily for a number of years performed a self-paced counting task during PET imaging, before and after smoking marijuana and placebo cigarettes. Smoking marijuana increased rCBF in the ventral forebrain and cerebellar cortex in both groups, but resulted in significantly less frontal lobe activation in chronic users. Counting rate increased after smoking marijuana in both groups, as did a behavioral measure of self-paced tapping, and both increases correlated with rCBF in the cerebellum. Smoking marijuana appears to accelerate a cerebellar clock altering self-paced behaviors.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0959-4965
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1145-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Cannabis, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Cerebellum, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Cerebrovascular Circulation, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Cognition, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Ego, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Heart Rate, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Marijuana Smoking, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Placebos, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Psychomotor Performance, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Regional Blood Flow, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Tetrahydrocannabinol, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Tomography, Emission-Computed, pubmed-meshheading:12821798-Verbal Behavior
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Marijuana alters the human cerebellar clock.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. daniel-oleary@uiowa.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.