ArticleJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN2020
Impaired cognitive performance under psychosocial stress in cannabis-dependent men is associated with attenuated precuneus activity
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- Psychophysiological responses to psychological stress exposure and neural correlates in adults with mental disorders: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Cognitive benefits of exercise interventions: an fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.Brain structure & function · 2021Pooled it
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- Altered functional activity of the precuneus and superior temporal gyrus in patients with residual dizziness caused by benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neuroimaging the effects of smartphone (over-)use on brain function and structure-a review on the current state of MRI-based findings and a roadmap for future research.Psychoradiology · 2023Review
- Associations between levels of Internet Gaming Disorder symptoms and striatal morphology-replication and associations with social anxiety.Psychoradiology · 2022Article
- The Association Between Precuneus Function and Residual Dizziness in Patients With Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Greater delay discounting and cannabis coping motives are associated with more frequent cannabis use in a large sample of adult cannabis users.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
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Abstract
Background: Deficient regulation of stress plays an important role in the escalation of substance use, addiction and relapse. Accumulating evidence suggests dysregulations in cognitive and reward-related processes and the underlying neural circuitry in cannabis dependence. However, despite the important regulatory role of the endocannabinoid system in the stress response, associations between chronic cannabis use and altered stress processing at the neural level have not been systematically examined. Methods: Against this background, the present functional MRI study examined psychosocial stress processing in cannabis-dependent men (n = 28) and matched controls (n = 23) using an established stress-induction paradigm (Montreal Imaging Stress Task) that combines computerized (adaptive) mental arithmetic challenges with social evaluative threat. Results: During psychosocial stress exposure, but not the no-stress condition, cannabis users demonstrated impaired performance relative to controls. In contrast, levels of experienced stress and cardiovascular stress responsivity did not differ from controls. Functional MRI data revealed that stress-induced performance deteriorations in cannabis users was accompanied by decreased precuneus activity and increased connectivity of this region with the superior frontal gyrus. Limitations: Only male cannabis-dependent users were examined; the generalizability in female users remains to be determined. Conclusion: Together, the present findings provide first evidence for exaggerated stress-induced cognitive performance deteriorations in cannabis users. The neural data suggest that deficient stress-related recruitment of the precuneus may be associated with the deterioration of performance at the behavioural level.
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