Item Details

title

NEUROFUNCTIONAL DEFICITS DURING DECISION-MAKING AND AFFECTIVE PROCESSING IN CHRONIC MARIJUANA USERS

author

Wesley, Michael John

abstract

Marijuana is the most frequently used illegal drug in the country with medicinal and recreational use increasing. The present series of studies was designed to examine functional brain activity associated with altered decision-making and affective or emotional processing in long-term chronic marijuana users (MJ Users).

subject

Brain Activity

Cannabis

fMRI

Human

International Affective Picture System

Iowa Gambling Task

contributor

Porrino, Linda J (committee chair)

Deadwyler, Sam A (committee member)

Hampson, Robert E (committee member)

Liguori, Anthony (committee member)

date

2011-02-16T21:42:30Z (accessioned)

2011-06-17T08:30:10Z (available)

2010 (issued)

degree

Physiology and Pharmacology (discipline)

embargo

2011-06-17 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/30418 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Dissertation