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Cannabis‐dependent adolescents show differences in global reward‐associated network topology: a functional connectomics approach
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Author(s)
Nestor, Liam J
Behan, Brendan
Suckling, John
Garavan, Hugh
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Adolescence may be a period of increased vulnerability to the onset of drug misuse and addiction due to changes in developing brain networks that support cognitive and reward processing. Cannabis is a widely misused illicit drug in adolescence which can lead to dependence and alterations in reward‐related neural functioning. Concerns exist that cannabis‐related alterations in these reward networks in adolescence may sensitize behaviour towards all forms of reward that increase the risk of further drug use. Taking a functional connectomics approach, we compared an acutely abstinent adolescent cannabis‐dependent (CAN) group with adolescent controls (CON) on global measures of network topology associated with anticipation on a monetary incentive delay task. In the presence of overall superior accuracy, the CAN group exhibited superior global connectivity (clustering coefficient, efficiency, characteristic path length) during monetary gain anticipation compared with the CON group. Additional analyses showed that the CAN group exhibited significantly greater connectivity strength during monetary gain anticipation across a subnetwork that included mesocorticolimbic nodes involving both interhemispheric and intrahemispheric connections. We discuss how these differences in reward‐associated connectivity may allude to subtle functional alterations in network architecture in adolescent cannabis‐dependence that could enhance the motivation for nondrug reward during acute abstinence.
Date Issued
2020-03-01
Date Acceptance
2019-03-11
Citation
Addiction Biology, 2020, 25 (2)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/69220
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1111/adb.12752
ISSN
1355-6215
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
Addiction Biology
Volume
25
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Owner. This is the accepted version of the following article: [Nestor, LJ, Behan, B, Suckling, J, Garavan, H. Cannabis‐dependent adolescents show differences in global reward‐associated network topology: A functional connectomics approach. Addiction Biology. 2019; 1– 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12752.], which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12752]
Subjects
11 Medical and Health Sciences
17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Substance Abuse
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
e12752
Date Publish Online
2019-04-08
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