Raul Gonzalez

TL;DR: To inform the political discourse with scientific evidence, the literature was reviewed to identify what is known and not known about the effects of cannabis use on human behavior, including cognition, motivation, and psychosis.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the GDS approach effectively discriminated HIV+ and normal control groups, and accurately classified HIV+ individuals with NP impairment based on the "gold standard" clinical rating approach, supporting the validity of the G DS as a clinically useful way of summarizing results on NP testing.

TL;DR: The baseline neuroimaging processing and subject-level analysis methods used by the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study are described to be a resource of unprecedented scale and depth for studying typical and atypical development.

TL;DR: The results indicate that HIV infection and methamphetamine dependence are each associated with neuropsychological deficits, and suggest that these factors in combination are associated with additive deleterious cognitive effects.

TL;DR: The results indicate that there might be decrements in the ability to learn and remember new information in chronic users, whereas other cognitive abilities are unaffected, and the small magnitude of these effect sizes suggests that if cannabis compounds are found to have therapeutic value, they may have an acceptable margin of safety under the more limited conditions of exposure that would likely obtain in a medical setting.