Pharmacology of medical cannabis

MR Amin, DW Ali - Recent advances in cannabinoid physiology and …, 2019 - Springer
The Cannabis plant has been used for many of years as a medicinal agent in the relief of
pain and seizures. It contains approximately 540 natural compounds including more than …

Antipsychotics: mechanisms underlying clinical response and side-effects and novel treatment approaches based on pathophysiology

SJ Kaar, S Natesan, R Mccutcheon, OD Howes - Neuropharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Antipsychotic drugs are central to the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic
disorders but are ineffective for some patients and associated with side-effects and …

A fluorescent sensor for spatiotemporally resolved imaging of endocannabinoid dynamics in vivo

A Dong, K He, B Dudok, JS Farrell, W Guan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Endocannabinoids (eCBs) are retrograde neuromodulators with important functions in a
wide range of physiological processes, but their in vivo dynamics remain largely …

Endocannabinoid signaling and synaptic function

PE Castillo, TJ Younts, AE Chávez, Y Hashimotodani - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Endocannabinoids are key modulators of synaptic function. By activating cannabinoid
receptors expressed in the central nervous system, these lipid messengers can regulate …

The spike-timing dependence of plasticity

DE Feldman - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
In spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), the order and precise temporal interval
between presynaptic and postsynaptic spikes determine the sign and magnitude of long …

Cannabinoid receptors in the central nervous system: their signaling and roles in disease

DA Kendall, GA Yudowski - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The identification and cloning of the two major cannabinoid (CB1 and CB2) receptors
together with the discovery of their endogenous ligands in the late 80s and early 90s …

[HTML][HTML] Cannabinoids and epilepsy

EC Rosenberg, RW Tsien, BJ Whalley, O Devinsky - Neurotherapeutics, 2015 - Elsevier
Cannabis has been used for centuries to treat seizures. Recent anecdotal reports,
accumulating animal model data, and mechanistic insights have raised interest in cannabis …

Cannabinoid type 2 receptors mediate a cell type-specific plasticity in the hippocampus

AV Stempel, A Stumpf, HY Zhang, T Özdoğan… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Endocannabinoids (eCBs) exert major control over neuronal activity by activating
cannabinoid receptors (CBRs). The functionality of the eCB system is primarily ascribed to …

Synaptic plasticity: multiple forms, functions, and mechanisms

A Citri, RC Malenka - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2008 - nature.com
Experiences, whether they be learning in a classroom, a stressful event, or ingestion of a
psychoactive substance, impact the brain by modifying the activity and organization of …

[HTML][HTML] Endocannabinoid-mediated control of synaptic transmission

M Kano, T Ohno-Shosaku… - Physiological …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
The discovery of cannabinoid receptors and subsequent identification of their endogenous
ligands (endocannabinoids) in early 1990s have greatly accelerated research on …