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The Effects of Marijuana on the Teenage and Young Adult Brain


The Effects of Marijuana on the Teenage and Young Adult Brain

Marijuana use during adolescence and young adulthood may affect this development and can lead to impaired learning and memory.

Cannabis and Teens - CDC

Cannabis use can have permanent effects on the developing brain when use begins in adolescence, especially with regular or heavy use. What you ...

How youth marijuana, alcohol use impacts life

Marijuana use among adolescents and young adults can affect normal brain development, leading to problems in learning, memory, coordination, reaction time and ...

Marijuana and the Teen Brain | Department of Psychiatry

Schuster, “What the data show is that the younger you are when you first tried marijuana...the greater [your] risk for adverse consequences and ...

Effects of Cannabis on the Adolescent Brain - PMC

In recent work, Tait and colleagues looked at young adult cannabis users (ages 20–24) and found memory deficits, however cessation of cannabis use was ...

Marijuana and the developing brain

In the short term, marijuana use has been shown to impair functions such as attention, memory, learning and decision-making. Those effects can ...

Ask a Doctor: How does marijuana affect the adolescent brain?

And for certain teens and adults at risk for psychiatric disorders, cannabis use also has the potential to trigger a first episode of psychosis ...

Cannabis and the adolescent brain - PNAS

He's found that exposure to THC or similar molecules during a specific window of adolescence delays maturation of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), a ...

The Effects of Cannabis Use during Adolescence (Report in Short)

Brain development during this time helps to lay the foundation for success or, conversely, challenges later in life. About one quarter of Canadian youth aged 15 ...

The Effects of Cannabis on the Teenage Brain - PBS Learning Media

Learn how cannabis may affect growth and function in the developing brain, in this video clip from NOVA: The Cannabis Question.

Cannabis and Brain Health - CDC

Cannabis affects brain development. · Cannabis use directly affects brain function — specifically the parts of the brain responsible for memory, ...

Acute effects of different types of cannabis on young adult and ...

Whole-brain analysis showed cannabis significantly disrupted functional connectivity with cortical regions and the executive control, salience, ...

The teen brain is especially vulnerable to the harms of cannabis

That THC can affect brain chemistry “in a way that wasn't intended,” Ebel says. “Some of the worst effects,” she notes, “can have lifelong ...

Alcohol and Cannabis Use and the Developing Brain

Together, these data suggest that very heavy cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood is associated with diminished attention; ...

Effects of cannabis on the teenage brain NCPIC + Turning Point

A short animated video about the effects of cannabis on the brain. Brain development, adolescence and short and long-term effects of ...

How does THC affect teens' mental health? - Science News

For a project on how cannabis legalization for adults in California has impacted adolescent health, Young-Wolff has talked to clinicians who ...

Cannabis and the Teenage Brain | Psychology Today

Cannabis use in teen years is also associated with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders. A recent study from Columbia ...

Surgeon General's Advisory: Marijuana Use & the Developing Brain

The risks of physical dependence, addiction, and other negative consequences increase with exposure to high concentrations of THC7 and the ...

Effects of Cannabis (Marijuana) on Adolescent & Young Adult Brain

Dr. Andrew Huberman explains the effects of cannabis (marijuana) on the adolescent and young adult brain. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured ...

Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence ... - JAMA Network

The effects of marijuana use may have long term brain effects which portend serious lifetime impairment. One can stop smoking in young adulthood ...