Adolescent THC impacts on mPFC dopamine-mediated cognitive processes in male and female rats.

Maricela X Martinez Vanessa Alizo Vera Christina M Ruiz Stan B Floresco Stephen V Mahler

Published in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2024)

These studies confirm a marked specificity in the cognitive processes impacted by AdoTHC exposure. They also suggest that some persistent AdoTHC effects may alter amphetamine-induced cognitive changes in a manner independent of VTA dopamine projections to mPFC, or via alterations of non-VTA dopamine neurons.

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