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Poison Watch Title: Teens Using Marijuana Might Suffer from Long-term Poor Memory, Study Finds A new study found that teens who use marijuana daily might suffer from poor memory when they reach adulthood. Researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine looked at the brain scans of 97 participants to determine how marijuana affects the brain of the users. The study involved healthy individuals, people who have marijuana use disorder, people diagnosed with schizophrenia but do not use marijuana, and marijuana users who also have schizophrenia. The marijuana users started using it daily when they were between 16 and 17 years old for three consecutive years.< The participants listened to a series of stories for a minute and were then asked to recall details about 30 minutes later. The memory test showed that the schizophrenic marijuana users scored 26 percent lower than those who have the mental disorder but do not use marijuana. It also revealed that teens who abused marijuana performed 18 percent worse on the assessment than the non-users. The analysis of the brain scans revealed that the marijuana users’ hippocampus showed more abnormalities compared to the non-users. Hippocampus is the region of the brain responsible for storing both short-term and long- term memories. The changes were observed two years after quitting marijuana use. The longer they used marijuana, the more abnormal their hippocampus showed. The study is the first to link heavy marijuana use with abnormalities in the hippocampus. “Both our recent studies link the chronic use of marijuana during adolescence to these differences in the shape of brain regions that are critical to memory and that appear to last for at least a few years after people stop using it,” lead study author Matthew Smith, assistant professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, said in a university news release. The researchers admitted that further study is needed to determine if marijuana is indeed responsible for the poor memory. “It is possible that the abnormal brain structures reveal a pre- existing vulnerability to marijuana abuse,” Smith said. “But evidence that the longer the participants were abusing marijuana, the greater the differences in hippocampus shape suggests marijuana may be the cause.” The study was published in the March 12 issue of Hippocampus. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest I don't remember if I used pot as a teen or not.
#2. To: Gatlin (#0) Teens Using Marijuana Might Suffer from Long-term Poor Memory, Study Finds Mental debilitation is necessary to live in the type of society we're building. Use more pot to make conforming to insanity easier.
#3. To: rlk (#2) Mental debilitation is necessary to live in the type of society we're building. I'm not so sure about that. And heck - I'm now Fifty. Yuck! Oh - right, my girlfriend told me to take the shrimp ... I'm not kidding. I'm losing my memory.
#4. To: Chuck_Wagon (#3) Oh - right, my girlfriend told me to take the shrimp out of the freezer to defrost. The most obvious solution to the problem is to get a new girfriend.
#5. To: Chuck_Wagon (#3) 5 Surprising Causes of Memory Loss I can blame it on my cholesterol & diabetes meds.
#6. To: Willie Green (#5) ...5 Surprising Causes of Memory Loss... THAT stuff I take. (Unfortunately.)
#7. To: rlk (#4) ...solution to the problem is to get a new girlfriend... The solution is to get a BETTER girlfriend.
#8. To: rlk (#4) The stir fried shrimp were good though.
#9. To: Gatlin (#0) (Edited) Yeah, and smoking tobacco causes heart disease and cancer. Just try making tobacco illegal and you'll see the creation of a new black market that will dwarf the black market for ALL illicit drugs combined. Oh wait, you cop sucking totalitarians are already trying to do that. Fuck you.
#10. To: cranko (#9) ...smoking tobacco causes heart disease and cancer... I did that from age 21 to age 42. Now - of course - I will NEVER touch tobacco again.
#11. To: rlk (#4) ...solution to the problem is to get a new girlfriend... I'm halfway there - I've gotten rid of the old one.
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