ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
SCHIZOPHRENIA
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Question
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Cannabis may act as a stressor, triggering schizophrenia, as it interacts with the ____ what?
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Acetlycholine system
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Neural correlates
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Serotonin system
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Dopamine system
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -When used in schizophrenic patients, cannabis induces hyperdopaminergic and hypoglutamatergic activities with both positive and negative symptoms (216). In particular, cannabis increases dopamine transmission in the nucleus accumbens, which might cause or aggravate psychoses (217).
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