Handbook of cannabis and related pathologies : biology, pharmacology, diagnosis, and treatment /

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Preedy, Victor R. (Editor)
Published: Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
Publisher Address: London, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128007563
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780128008270
012800827X
Index Number: RM666
CLC: R971
Contents: <Ol><li>The <i>Cannabis</i> Plant: Botanical Aspects </li><li>The biosynthesis of cannabinoids </li><li>Increasing plant concentrations of THC and implications on health related disorders </li><li>Age as a Predictor of Cannabis Use </li><li>Lifetime cannabis use and cognition in psychosis spectrum disorders </li><li>A Profile of Synthetic Cannabinoid Users </li><li>Dual disorders in cannabis misuse </li><li>Cannabis use and cognitive function </li><li>Cannabis, migration and psychosis onset </li><li>The global epidemiology and disease burden of cannabis use and dependence </li><li>International aspects of cannabis use and misuse -- the Australian perspective </li><li>International aspects of cannabis use and misuse: Egypt </li><li>Cannabis Body Packing -- A Caribbean Perspective </li><li>Gender differences in cannabis use disorders </li><li>The role of age in the onset and further development of cannabis use disorders </li><li>Effects of Cannabis Use on Neurocognition in Adolescents and Emerging Adults with Psychiatric Comorbidities </li><li>Correlates and consequences of prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE): identifying and characterizing vulnerable maternal populations and determining outcomes for exposed offspring </li><li>Cannabis and clubbing: Relevance of cannabis and polydrug use in the clubbing culture today </li><li>Cannabis and Sexual Behavior </li><li>Friendships and Cannabis Use </li><li>Students' knowledge of cannabis </li><li>Childhood trauma and cannabis -- risk factors in severe mental disorders </li><li>Parent's Influence on Their Children's Cannabis Use </li><li>Cannabis Users and Premorbid Intellectual Quotient (IQ) </li><li>Cannabis and traffic accidents </li><li>Drug-related pictures, attentional bias, and cannabis use </li><li>Cannabis use and first-episode psychosis patients (FEP) </li><li>Cannabis, associative memory, fMRI, and the Implicit Association Test </li><li>Stress Response in Cannabis Users and Psychosis </li><li>Motivation in Chronic Cannabis Use </li><li>Cannabis use and its association to mental illness: a focus on mood and anxiety disorders </li><li>Cannabis Use and Well-being </li><li>Craving and cannabis: A potential paradox </li><li>Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol and catalepsy-like immobilization </li><li>The interactive nature of cannabis and schizophrenia risk genes </li><li>Neuroimaging findings in Adolescent Cannabis use and Early Phase Psychosis </li><li>Cannabis smoking in adult schizophrenia: A cognitive and functional magnetic resonance imaging perspective </li><li>The long-lasting effects of cannabis use on movement and brain regions that control movement </li><li>Assessment of cannabis acute effects on driving skills: laboratory, simulator and on road studies </li><li>Chronic cannabis use and axonal fibre connectivity </li><li>Microglial activation and cannabis exposure </li><li>Cannabis and psychosis: correlation, causality and consequences </li><li>Cannabis use and cannabis use disorders in bipolar disorder -- causes and consequences </li><li>Cannabis use in epilepsy -- risks and benefits </li><li>Cannabis, cannabinoids and visceral pain. </li><li>Cannabis and Post-Operative Analgesia </li><li>Chronic cannabis abuse and thyroid function </li><li>Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome </li><li>Cannabis and Cannabinoids and the effects on gastrointestinal function: an overview </li><li>Cardiovascular Effects of Cannabis Usage </li><li>Cannabis and Stroke </li><li>Cannabis Smoking and the Lung </li><li>Cannabis and hepatic injury </li><li>Cannabis allergy: more than a bad trip </li><li>Marijuana and Breastfeeding </li><li>Hypocretins/orexins and addiction: role in cannabinoid dependence </li><li>Regulatory role of cannabinoids for skin barrier functions and cutaneous inflammation </li><li>Cannabinoids and the Cannabinoid Receptors: An Overview </li><li>Signalling and Regulation of the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor </li><li>Allosteric modulation of the Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor </li><li>The polymorphisms of the CB2 cannabinoid receptor </li><li>Chemistry of Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists </li><li>The endocannabinoid system as a target for new antiseizure drugs </li><li>Pharmacological aspects of anandamide and 2-arachidonoyglycerol as bioactive lipids </li><li>Pharmacological aspects of NMDA receptors, mGluR5, and endocannabinoids </li><li>Peripheral CB1 receptors and ghrelin in feeding regulation. Pharmacological implications. </li><li>Pharmacological aspects of novel antiobesity agents related to cannabinoids </li><li>Cannabinoid reward and dependence: Focus on the main psychoactive ingredients of marijuana in preclinical studies </li><li>Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors and cannabinoids VRP suggested Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARs) and cannabinoids </li><li>The Protein-Protein interactions of CRIP1a and cannabinoid 1 receptor: the molecular mechanism study through an integrated molecular modeling approach </li><li>Synthetic cannabinoids: A summar