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ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2019

Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol produce dissociable effects on prefrontal cortical executive function and regulation of affective behaviors.

Hanna J Szkudlarek, Sagar J Desai, Justine Renard, Brian Pereira, Christopher Norris, Christina E L Jobson, Nagalingam Rajakumar, Brian L Allman, Steven R Laviolette

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Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hanna J SzkudlarekDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada. hszkudla@uwo.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4709-5513
Sagar J DesaiDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada.
Justine RenardDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7185-4829
Brian PereiraDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada.
Christopher NorrisDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada.
Christina E L JobsonDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada.
Nagalingam RajakumarDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada.
Brian L AllmanDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada.
Steven R LavioletteDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5C1, Canada. steven.laviolette@schulich.uwo.ca.
Western University · CA

Funding

Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Instituts de Recherche en Santé du Canada) MOP 272999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of cannabis for therapeutic and recreational purposes is growing exponentially. Nevertheless, substantial questions remain concerning the potential cognitive and affective side-effects associated with cannabis exposure. In particular, the effects of specific marijuana-derived phytocannabinoids on neural regions such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are of concern, given the role of the PFC in both executive cognitive function and affective processing. The main biologically active phytocannabinoids, ∆-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), interact with multiple neurotransmitter systems important for these processes directly within the PFC. Considerable evidence has demonstrated that acute or chronic THC exposure may induce psychotomimetic effects, whereas CBD has been shown to produce potentially therapeutic effects for both psychosis and/or anxiety-related symptoms. Using an integrative combination of cognitive and affective behavioral pharmacological assays in rats, we report that acute intra-PFC infusions of THC produce anxiogenic effects while producing no impairments in executive function. In contrast, acute infusions of intra-PFC CBD impaired attentional set-shifting and spatial working memory, without interfering with anxiety or sociability behaviors. In contrast, intra-PFC CBD reversed the cognitive impairments induced by acute glutamatergic antagonism within the PFC, and blocked the anxiogenic properties of THC, suggesting that the therapeutic properties of CBD within the PFC may be present only during pathologically aberrant states within the PFC. Interestingly, the effects of PFC THC vs. CBD were found to be mediated through dissociable CB1 vs. 5-HT

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AffectAnimalsAnxietyBehavior, AnimalBenzopyransCannabidiolDizocilpine MaleateDose-Response Relationship, DrugDronabinolExecutive FunctionMaleMicroinjectionsPiperidinesPrefrontal CortexPyrazolesRatsAM 251BenzopyransCannabidiolDizocilpine MaleateDronabinolPiperidinesPyrazolesrobalzotan

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PMID30538288
PMCPMC6372719
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