ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2018
Disturbances of postural sway components in cannabis users.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between history of cannabis use and outcomes after total hip or knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Acute effects of different types of cannabis on young adult and adolescent resting-state brain networks.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Trial
- Therapeutic Use of Medical Cannabis Beyond Pain Management in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.Archives of internal medicine research · 2026Article
- Postural sway dynamics in adults across the autism spectrum: a multifactor approach.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Self-Reported Adverse Effects to Cannabis by Older Canadians: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Drugs & aging · 2025Article
- Residual and enduring effects of cannabis use on cognitive and psychomotor function: A study of adults during unrestricted cannabis use, short-term abstinence, and protracted abstinence.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Predictability of postural sway: unraveling the impact of simulated somatosensory deficits using a rambling-trembling approach.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Higher Risk, Higher Reward? Self-Reported Effects of Real-World Cannabis Use in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2022Article
- Sample entropy discriminates balance performance of older cannabis users from non-users.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2022Article
- Effects of High-Potency Cannabis on Psychomotor Performance in Frequent Cannabis Users.Cannabis and cannabinoid research · 2022Article
- Altered cerebellar-cortical resting-state functional connectivity in cannabis users.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Cannabis use is not associated with increased balance disturbances in HIV-infected individuals.Journal of cannabis research · 2021Article
- Article
- Adverse events following cannabis for medical use in Tuscany: An analysis of the Italian Phytovigilance database.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2020Article
- Beyond rambling and trembling: effects of visual feedback on slow postural drift.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
introductionA prominent effect of acute cannabis use is impaired motor coordination and driving performance. However, few studies have evaluated balance in chronic cannabis users, even though density of the CB1 receptor, which mediates the psychoactive effects of cannabis, is extremely high in brain regions critically involved in this fundamental behavior. The present study measured postural sway in regular cannabis users and used rambling and trembling analysis to quantify the integrity of central and peripheral nervous system contributions to the sway signal.
methodsPostural sway was measured in 42 regular cannabis users (CB group) and 36 non-cannabis users (N-CB group) by asking participants to stand as still as possible on a force platform in the presence and absence of motor and sensory challenges. Center of pressure (COP) path length was measured, and the COP signal was decomposed into rambling and trembling components. Exploratory correlational analyses were conducted between sway variables, cannabis use history, and neurocognitive function.
resultsThe CB group had significantly increased path length and increased trembling in the anterior-posterior (AP) direction. Exploratory correlational analyses suggested that AP rambling was significantly inversely associated with visuo-motor processing speed. DISCUSSION: Regular cannabis use is associated with increased postural sway, and this appears to be predominantly due to the trembling component, which is believed to reflect the peripheral nervous system's contribution to the sway signal.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.