NEUR 4306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Insomnia, Wild Type, Exocytosis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 4306
• Professor: kim hellemans

Document Summary

Lecture 13: cannabis introduction, most commonly used drug in the world, most controversial because of legality, most marijuana comes from the cannabis sativa; contains cannabinoids, over 200 cannabinoids known, most common is delta-9- tetrahydrocannabinol, ( 9-thc) 2 endocannabinoids: synthesized in body, released in fight or flight situations. Lab based research models have been done using isolated thc or cbd products. Iv: not generalizable, other cannabinoids and products in marijuana contribute to the reward. Not present in isolate thc or cbd: developed novel self administration method, methods, used cannabis extracts containing either canthc (28. 4% thc, 1. 38% cbd and. High resolution (gray matter: measure volumetric differences in grey matter, 2. Resting state fmri (functional connectivity: functional connectivity between key brain regions, 3. Diffusion tensor imaging (structural connectivity: fractional anisotropy (fa) = measure of the integrity of the white matter, measures how hydrogen ions are resisted in white matter.