on April 23, 2015 in World News
Marijuana users may have ‘false memories’
Marijuana users may have ‘false memories’: Brain scans reveal how cannabis smokers can live in their own reality Brains scans showed cannabis users have a less active hippocampus This is the area that is associated with storing and retrieving memories Memory problems persisted months after someone stopped smoking Sometimes, our brains can trick us into remembering things that never happened. These memory ‘mistakes’ are seen more frequently in psychiatric disorders and old age – and now researchers have revealed why they are also more common in cannabis users. Using neuroimaging, researchers discovered that the brains of heavy cannabis have a… View Article
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