• DOI:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2013.11.002
Corpus ID: 13197304

Cannabidiol as a potential treatment for psychosis

@article{Schubart2014CannabidiolAA,
  title={Cannabidiol as a potential treatment for psychosis},
  author={C. Schubart and I. Sommer and P. Fusar-Poli and L. Witte and R. Kahn and M. Boks},
  journal={European Neuropsychopharmacology},
  year={2014},
  volume={24},
  pages={51-64}
}

• C. Schubart, I. Sommer, +3 authors M. Boks
• Published 2014
• Medicine, Psychology
• European Neuropsychopharmacology

Although cannabis use is associated with an increased risk of developing psychosis, the cannabis constituent cannabidiol (CBD) may have antipsychotic properties. This review concisely describes the role of the endocannabinoid system in the development of psychosis and provides an overview of currently available animal, human experimental, imaging, epidemiological and clinical studies that investigated the antipsychotic properties of CBD. In this targeted literature review we performed a search… Expand