Search results
1 cze 2023 · The latest findings are shedding light on how biological brain differences may influence cognitive effects in adolescent users, how cannabis can interfere with pharmaceutical medications for depression and other mental health issues, and the potential mental benefits for older adults.
Marijuana is the second most widely used intoxicant in adolescence, and teens who engage in heavy marijuana use often show disadvantages in neurocognitive performance, macrostructural and microstructural brain development, and alterations in brain functioning.
6 lut 2023 · In addition, while many studies reviewed in this article have examined the effects of direct THC exposure during adolescent brain development on sequelae associated with neuropsychiatric phenotypes, less is known regarding how exposure to cannabinoids during adolescence might interact with specific environmental factors to increase disease risk ...
With substantial evidence for the role of the endocannabinoid system in neural development and understanding that brain development continues into early adulthood, the rising use of cannabis in adolescents and young adults raises major concerns.
28 maj 2024 · Whole-brain analysis showed cannabis significantly disrupted functional connectivity with cortical regions and the executive control, salience, hippocampal, and limbic striatal networks...
25 paź 2023 · In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana’s major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found changes to the structure of microglia, which are specialized brain immune cells, that may worsen a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia.
7 sty 2020 · Parents, educators, law enforcement, and teenagers all want Tseng to educate them about a hot-button issue: how cannabis affects the adolescent brain. Most researchers stress that despite increasingly relaxed societal views toward marijuana, cannabis use—especially in adolescence—is not benign.
