How teen marijuana use may alter the shape of the brain

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Teen cannabis use reveals how marijuana can alter brain shape

Cortical thinning may accelerate with heavier cannabis use, which a new study suggests might influence teen impulsivity.

www.inverse.com

The authors write that their study is the “largest longitudinal neuroimaging study of cannabis use to date” and is particularly pertinent because of what we know about adolescent cannabis use: Most people trying marijuana for the first time (78 percent) are between the ages of 12 and 20.

“What we found was that the more cannabis use, that people were reporting, from 14 to 19, the faster certain cortical areas were thinning,” lead author Matthew Albaugh tells Inverse. Albaugh is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.

The findings, he says, “might suggest that cannabis is indeed having some sort of an effect on this neuro-maturation process.”

 

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Teen cannabis use reveals how marijuana can alter brain shape

Cortical thinning may accelerate with heavier cannabis use, which a new study suggests might influence teen impulsivity.

www.inverse.com

The authors write that their study is the “largest longitudinal neuroimaging study of cannabis use to date” and is particularly pertinent because of what we know about adolescent cannabis use: Most people trying marijuana for the first time (78 percent) are between the ages of 12 and 20.

“What we found was that the more cannabis use, that people were reporting, from 14 to 19, the faster certain cortical areas were thinning,” lead author Matthew Albaugh tells Inverse. Albaugh is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.

The findings, he says, “might suggest that cannabis is indeed having some sort of an effect on this neuro-maturation process.”

This has been common knowledge forever. Anything that alters the brain during growth changes or stunts the growth. Stupidly is our biggest world crises.