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Heavy adolescent cannabis consumption produces social and cognitive deficits in adulthood


ABSTRACT: Population-based studies show cannabis use doubles the risk of developing schizophrenia especially when use occurs in early adolescence (prior to age 15). However, the cause-and-effect mechanisms are largely unknown. To investigate the effect of cannabis on brain maturation and relation to the development of psychosis-like behaviours in adulthood, we treated young adolescent mice with vehicle or cannabis extract once a day for 2 weeks between postnatal days 14 and 28, and then collected hippocampal tissue for microarray analysis 12 weeks later. We identify a total of 78 differentially expressed genes (25 upregulated and 53 downregulated; p<0.05, fold change ± 1.2) and validate increases in dopamine D2 receptor (Drd2) and fatty acid amide hydrolase (Faah). Changes in Faah expression were limited to the hippocampus however Drd2 also increased in striatum but not prefrontal cortex or amygdala. When tested in adulthood with a behavioural panel relevant to schizophrenia, cannabis-treated mice displayed lower anxiety in the elevated zero-maze, decreased social preference, increased social novelty preference, mild cognitive impairments in a spatial version of the novel object recognition task and absence of latent inhibition when compared to vehicle controls. Adolescent treatment with cannabis extract thus lead to long-lasting changes in gene expression within the hippocampus which together result in behavioural deficits consistent with the negative and positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE58437 | GEO | 2018/02/17

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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