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Podcast: High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
Episode: Episode #108 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. David Baranger on Mental Health Burden with Prenatal Cannabis Use
Description: A recent publication in JAMA Pediatrics shows that mental health burdens are associated with prenatal cannabis exposure that persists from childhood to early adolescence. These are results from the Longitudinal ABCD (Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development) study.
David Baranger, PhD
I am a Neuroscientist and Postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis. My primary interest is in understanding how neurodevelopment mediates the effects of genetics and stress on the emergence of psychopathology, particularly substance use and depressive disorders. My research also includes work identifying replicable and reliable neural correlates of psychopathology, as well as work studying factors that...