Brain measures | Regions/tasks/networks | Direction/strength of association with cannabis use | |
Volume | Right inferior lateral ventricles | Positive | |
Area | Left frontal pole | Positive | |
Thickness | Left posterior ventral cingulum gyrus | Positive | |
Tissue Intensity | Right pallidum | Positive | |
Diffusion tensor imaging | FA | Genu and body of corpus callosum | Negative |
ICVF | Genu of corpus callosum | ||
MD | Genu of corpus callosum, cingulum cingulate gyrus | Positive | |
L2 | Genu and body of corpus callosum, and left cingulum cingulate gyrus | ||
L3 | Genu and body of corpus callosum, genu and right and left anterior corona radiata | ||
Task-based functional MRI | BOLD fMRI activity to emotional faces shapes in whole brain | Stronger | |
Resting state functional MRI | Default mode network, central executive network, salience network, and motor network | Stronger | |
Default mode network, central executive network, salience network, motor network, visual network, subcortical-cerebellum network, attention network and limbic network | Weaker |
BOLD, Blood oxygenation level dependent; FA, fractional anisotropy; ICVF, intracellular volume fraction; L2 and L3, radial diffusivities; MD, mean diffusivity.