Association of Cannabis Use during Adolescence with Neurodevelopment

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Beitragende

  • Matthew D. Albaugh - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Jonatan Ottino-Gonzalez - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Amanda Sidwell - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Claude Lepage - , Centre Universitaire de Sante McGill (Autor:in)
  • Anthony Juliano - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Max M. Owens - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Bader Chaarani - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Philip Spechler - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Nicholas Fontaine - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Pierre Rioux - , Centre Universitaire de Sante McGill (Autor:in)
  • Lindsay Lewis - , Centre Universitaire de Sante McGill (Autor:in)
  • Seun Jeon - , Centre Universitaire de Sante McGill (Autor:in)
  • Alan Evans - , Centre Universitaire de Sante McGill (Autor:in)
  • Deepak D'Souza - , Yale University (Autor:in)
  • Rajiv Radhakrishnan - , Yale University (Autor:in)
  • Tobias Banaschewski - , Universität Heidelberg (Autor:in)
  • Arun L.W. Bokde - , Trinity College Dublin (Autor:in)
  • Erin Burke Quinlan - , King's College London (KCL) (Autor:in)
  • Patricia Conrod - , University of Montreal (Autor:in)
  • Sylvane Desrivières - , King's College London (KCL) (Autor:in)
  • Herta Flor - , Universität Heidelberg, Universität Mannheim (Autor:in)
  • Antoine Grigis - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)
  • Penny Gowland - , University of Nottingham (Autor:in)
  • Andreas Heinz - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung in der Charité (Autor:in)
  • Bernd Ittermann - , Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Autor:in)
  • Jean Luc Martinot - , École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay (Autor:in)
  • Marie Laure Paillère Martinot - , INSERM - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (Autor:in)
  • Frauke Nees - , Universität Heidelberg, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel (Autor:in)
  • Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos - , Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) (Autor:in)
  • Tomáš Paus - , Bloorview Research Institute, University of Toronto (Autor:in)
  • Luise Poustka - , Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Autor:in)
  • Sabina Millenet - , Universität Heidelberg (Autor:in)
  • Juliane H. Fröhner - , Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Neuroimaging Center (Autor:in)
  • Michael N. Smolka - , Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Neuroimaging Center (Autor:in)
  • Henrik Walter - , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung in der Charité (Autor:in)
  • Robert Whelan - , Trinity College Dublin (Autor:in)
  • Gunter Schumann - , King's College London (KCL), Fudan University, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (Autor:in)
  • Alexandra Potter - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)
  • Hugh Garavan - , University of Vermont (Autor:in)

Abstract

Importance: Animal studies have shown that the adolescent brain is sensitive to disruptions in endocannabinoid signaling, resulting in altered neurodevelopment and lasting behavioral effects. However, few studies have investigated ties between cannabis use and adolescent brain development in humans. Objective: To examine the degree to which magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-assessed cerebral cortical thickness development is associated with cannabis use in a longitudinal sample of adolescents. Design, Setting, and Participants: Data were obtained from the community-based IMAGEN cohort study, conducted across 8 European sites. Baseline data used in the present study were acquired from March 1, 2008, to December 31, 2011, and follow-up data were acquired from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2016. A total of 799 IMAGEN participants were identified who reported being cannabis naive at study baseline and had behavioral and neuroimaging data available at baseline and 5-year follow-up. Statistical analysis was performed from October 1, 2019, to August 31, 2020. Main Outcomes and Measures: Cannabis use was assessed at baseline and 5-year follow-up with the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. Anatomical MR images were acquired with a 3-dimensional T1-weighted magnetization prepared gradient echo sequence. Quality-controlled native MR images were processed through the CIVET pipeline, version 2.1.0. Results: The study evaluated 1598 MR images from 799 participants (450 female participants [56.3%]; mean [SD] age, 14.4 [0.4] years at baseline and 19.0 [0.7] years at follow-up). At 5-year follow-up, cannabis use (from 0 to >40 uses) was negatively associated with thickness in left prefrontal (peak: t785 = -4.87, cluster size = 1558 vertices; P = 1.10 × 10-6, random field theory cluster corrected) and right prefrontal (peak: t785 = -4.27, cluster size = 1551 vertices; P = 2.81 × 10-5, random field theory cluster corrected) cortices. There were no significant associations between lifetime cannabis use at 5-year follow-up and baseline cortical thickness, suggesting that the observed neuroanatomical differences did not precede initiation of cannabis use. Longitudinal analysis revealed that age-related cortical thinning was qualified by cannabis use in a dose-dependent fashion such that greater use, from baseline to follow-up, was associated with increased thinning in left prefrontal (peak: t815.27 = -4.24, cluster size = 3643 vertices; P = 2.28 × 10-8, random field theory cluster corrected) and right prefrontal (peak: t813.30 = -4.71, cluster size = 2675 vertices; P = 3.72 × 10-8, random field theory cluster corrected) cortices. The spatial pattern of cannabis-related thinning was associated with age-related thinning in this sample (r = 0.540; P <.001), and a positron emission tomography-assessed cannabinoid 1 receptor-binding map derived from a separate sample of participants (r = -0.189; P <.001). Analysis revealed that thinning in right prefrontal cortices, from baseline to follow-up, was associated with attentional impulsiveness at follow-up. Conclusions and Relevance: Results suggest that cannabis use during adolescence is associated with altered neurodevelopment, particularly in cortices rich in cannabinoid 1 receptors and undergoing the greatest age-related thickness change in middle to late adolescence.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)1031-1040
Seitenumfang10
FachzeitschriftJAMA psychiatry
Jahrgang78
Ausgabenummer9
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Sept. 2021
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 34132750
ORCID /0000-0001-5398-5569/work/161890752
ORCID /0000-0002-8493-6396/work/161891664

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