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Neurobiological consequences of maternal cannabis on human fetal development and its neuropsychiatric outcome

Despite the high prevalence of marijuana use among pregnant women and adolescents, the impact of cannabis on the developing brain is still not well understood. However, growing evidence supports that the endocannabinoid system plays a major role in CNS patterning in structures relevant for mood, cognition, and reward, such as the mesocorticolimbic system. It is thus clear that exposure to cannabis during early ontogeny is not benign and potential compensatory mechanisms that might be expected to…

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12 years ago

July 2, 2009

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Life-long impairment of glucose homeostasis upon prenatal exposure to psychostimulants.

Korchynska S, Krassnitzer M, Malenczyk K, Prasad RB, Tretiakov EO, Rehman S, Cinquina V, Gernedl V, Farlik M, Petersen J, Hannes S, Schachenhofer J, Reisinger SN, Zambon A, Asplund O, Artner I, Keimpema E, Lubec G, Mulder J, Bock C, Pollak DD, Romanov RA, Pifl C, Groop L, Hökfelt TG, Harkany T. Korchynska S, et al. EMBO J. 2020 Jan 2;39(1):e100882. doi: 10.15252/embj.2018100882. Epub 2019 Nov 21. EMBO J. 2020. PMID: 31750562 Free PMC article.

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