I promised you some Alan Green research a few posts ago. This isn't about addiction and isn't exactly hot off the presses, but I think you can fit it in conceptually to the marijuana research and it is a summary for laypeople, not the technical research. Altered Brain Activity in Schizophrenia May Exaggerate Self-Focus.
Traditionally, the disturbed thoughts, perceptions and emotions characteristic of schizophrenia are considered caused by disconnections among the brain regions that control these different functions. The study found that schizophrenia also triggers excessive connectivity between the so-called default brain regions involved in self-reflection. (Italics mine.)
...In the schizophrenia patients, the default system was both hyperactive and hyperconnected during rest, remaining so as they performed the memory tasks. Patients were less able than healthy control subjects to suppress this network activity of during the task.
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