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Cannabis and Emotion Processing: A Review of Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Responses

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  • With cannabis use increasing globally, it is important to understand its acute and chronic impacts on human physiology and behavior. It is proposed that cannabis use is linked to impairments in emotion processing, and brain regions that underlie these processes. The purpose of this review paper is to provide the current state of knowledge of the effects of cannabis on emotion processing, and the impacts of cannabis use in regard to behavioral, physiological, and neural responses. This review paper will provide significant insight by synthesizing and interpreting previous research on the effects of cannabis on emotion processing. Overall, studies have shown that cannabis use is associated with difficulties in emotion processing, such as impairments in correctly identifying emotions and the inability to correctly differentiate between the intensity of emotions. In addition, while there are mixed findings for the effects of cannabis on amygdalar brain activity, cannabis use is linked with decreased brain response in the frontal lobe when viewing emotional stimuli. To our knowledge, this will be one of the first critical review papers focused on cannabis and emotion processing. Synthesizing the existing findings is important for future prevention and intervention studies focused on promoting healthy socioemotional functioning in cannabis users.
  • Key Words: Cannabis, Emotion Processing, Socio-emotional functioning, Emotion Recognition
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  • 2021-06-03 to 2022-07-04

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