Marijuana smoking often begins in adolescence - and the timing could not be worse, suggests a new study.
Regularly in their early teens at least 16 use the drug young adults who began substantially worse on tests that were assessing the function of the brain as topics, as you, reported researchers began performed last week.
The findings led researchers at the McLean Hospital to suspect that the young people developing brain can be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of marijuana.
"We must understand that the developing brain is not the same as the adult brain," said Dr. Staci A. Gruber, the paper the senior author and Director of the cognitive and clinical neuroimaging in McLean, a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.
The study relating to brain scans, was small, consisting of 35 chronic marijuana smokers, the average 22 years old waren.Die topics were asked, an assessment of the Executive function - the brain processes responsible for planning and abstract thinking and understanding rules and inhibition inappropriate Aktionen.Der test - where participants asked were cards with various shapes to sort, numbers and colors – is a measure of cognitive flexibility.
15 Dr. Gruber, said, the brain is still changing and "the part the Executive function of the last part is modulated to develop."
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