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Chronic delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol during adolescence provokes sex-dependent changes in the emotional profile in adult rats: behavioral and biochemical correlates.

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The results suggest that heavy cannabis consumption in adolescence may induce subtle alterations in the emotional circuit in female rats, ending in depressive-like behavior, whereas male rats show altered sensitivity to rewarding stimuli.
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This article is published in Neuropsychopharmacology.The article was published on 2008-01-02 and is currently open access. It has received 317 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ventral tegmental area & Nucleus accumbens.

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Assessing the Role of Cannabis Use on Cortical Surface Structure in Adolescents and Young Adults: Exploring Gender and Aerobic Fitness as Potential Moderators

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that aerobic fitness moderates the impact of cannabis on cortical surface structure, and gender differences are evident; these moderating factors may help explain inconsistencies in the literature and warrant further investigation.
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Endocannabinoid-Epigenetic Cross-Talk: A Bridge toward Stress Coping

TL;DR: This review highlights the protective role of 2-AG in stress-response termination and stress resiliency, and discusses ECS regulation with a further nuclear homeostatic system whose nature is exquisitely epigenetic, orchestrated by Lysine Specific Demethylase 1.
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Part III: Principal component analysis: bridging the gap between strain, sex and drug effects

TL;DR: It is demonstrated here that using PCA was able to describe the main variables of interest and demonstrate that THC exposure had a negligible effect on the variance in the data set, and that early life experience accounted for a large proportion of variance across data sets, although its relative contribution varied across tasks.
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Endocannabinoid-serotonin systems interaction in health and disease.

TL;DR: In this article, the eCB/5-HT crosstalk at the neuronal and synaptic levels is explored for psychiatric and neurological disorders. But, the potential effect of 5-HT/eCB interaction at the behavioral level is not explored.
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Gender Differences in Cannabis Addiction and Dependence

TL;DR: Clinical and laboratory-based research evidence revealing important sex-related differences in cannabinoid-induced effects on reward and motivation in males and females is reviewed.
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The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations

TL;DR: Developmental changes in prefrontal cortex and limbic brain regions of adolescents across a variety of species, alterations that include an apparent shift in the balance between mesocortical and mesolimbic dopamine systems likely contribute to the unique characteristics of adolescence.
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Behavioural despair in rats: a new model sensitive to antidepressant treatments.

TL;DR: Positive findings with atypical antidepressant drugs such as iprindole and mianserin suggest that the method may be capable of discovering new antidepressants hitherto undetectable with classical pharmacological tests.
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Critical periods of vulnerability for the developing nervous system: evidence from humans and animal models.

TL;DR: Of critical concern is the possibility that developmental exposure to neurotoxicants may result in an acceleration of age-related decline in function, and the fact that developmental neurotoxicity that results in small effects can have a profound societal impact when amortized across the entire population and across the life span of humans.
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The use of a plus-maze to measure anxiety in the mouse

TL;DR: The plus-maze appears to be a useful test with which to investigate both anxiolytic and anxiogenic agents.
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The Mesolimbic Dopamine Reward Circuit in Depression

TL;DR: It is proposed that the NAc and VTA contribute importantly to the pathophysiology and symptomatology of depression and may even be involved in its etiology.
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