Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife

By M. Meier, Avshalom Caspi, Antony Ambler, H. Harrington, Renate M. Houts, R. Keefe, Kay McDonald, Aimee L. Ward, Richie Poulton, Terrie E. Moffitt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Brain Development. (2015, neutral): “The longer the period of cannabis consumption, the greater the decline in IQ [65].”
• Cognitive Bias Modification and Cognitive Control Training in Addiction and Related Psychopathology (2013, background): “A recent paper from the Dunedin study, in which neuropsychological testing was done before cannabis use (age 13) and again at age 38 (with several measurements of cannabis dependence in between), indicated a strong neurotoxic effect of persistent cannabis use when initiated at age 18 (Meier et al., ”
• A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment (2017, background): “Marie and Zölitz (2015) find that access to marijuana impedes performance at university;Meier et al. (2012) show that regular marijuana use can lead to cognitive decline, although their results have been challenged by Rogeberg (2013), who shows that the effect is not causal and is most likely zero.”