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Shared Predisposition in the Association Between Cannabis Use and Subcortical Brain Structure.
JAMA psychiatry - 1 Oct 2015
Pagliaccio David, Barch Deanna M, Bogdan Ryan, Wood Phillip K, Lynskey Michael T, Heath Andrew C, Agrawal Arpana
Abstract excerpt
IMPORTANCE: Prior neuroimaging studies have suggested that alterations in brain structure may be a consequence of cannabis use. Siblings discordant for cannabis use offer an opportunity to use cross-sectional data to disentangle such causal hypotheses from shared effects of genetics and familial environment on brain structure and cannabis use. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether cannabis use is associated with...
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