The age at which an adolescent begins using marijuana may affect typical brain development, according to researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas. In a paper recently published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, scientists describe how marijuana use, and ...
Cardiovascular system.Most of thelong term effects of marijuanaon the cardiovascular system associated with smoking of cannabis have been described above in this section. Although there is no reliable information that marijuana smoking has serious effects on the cardiovascular system of healthy people, t...
Dr. Francesca Filbey, director of cognitive neuroscience of addictive behaviors at the Center for BrainHealth, and her research team examined the effects of long-term marijuana use on the reward system in the brain. Credit: University of Texas at Dallas Chronic marijuana use disrupts the brain's...
New research suggests that marijuana use can deteriorate the part of the brain responsible for decision-making. Dr. David Agus joins "CBS This Morning" from Los Angeles to discuss the study.
In the study, researchers looked at 59 marijuana users who hadused marijuana dailyfor the past 60 days, and had used the drug on at least 5,000 occasions during their lives. The researchers wanted to see whether the brains of theselong-term marijuana userswould respond differently to picures...
Accordingly, based on scientific evidence, alcoholism is a disease because it has major long-term effects on the brain, it is an addiction, and it is treated medically. The first major reason alcoholism should be considered disease is the long-lasting effects it has on the brain. The ...
Thanks to medical marijuana being legalized across more of the country, we have findings for therapeutic effects and loads of potential benefits when it comes to conservative, safe cannabis use. Depending on how the plant is consumed, one important short-term effect is that it can relax mu...
induced friendship ties are less stable than other friendships, they may serve as early seeds for complex social network processes. Our study shows that simple network interventions can have a pronounced short-term effect and indirect long-term effects on the evolution and structure of student ...
A drug is a substance that is used in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease. Drugs used for the medicinal purpose are called medicines. Drugs have the ability to change the mood. Several types of drugs show positive and negative effects on the body....
"The overall body of evidence is pretty clear that when teenagers use marijuana [regularly], their brains tend to look different and there tend to be cognitive differences," he said. So it would be wise to at least delay that first marijuana experiment, until the brain is mature, he sugges...