This is a site for articles related to human development for students taking Psy 2261 (Child Development) or Psy 2340 (Life-Span Development) at Columbus State Community College. Articles are relevant to physical, cognitive or psychosocial development issues in infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. If you find a broken link, please let me know!
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Casual Pot Use Causes Brain Abnormalities
This Chicago Tribune article entitled "Casual Pot Use Causes Brain Abnormalities in Young: Study" reports on a recent research study revealing that even with casual use, there is a direct correlation between the number of times young users smoked and brain abnormalities, especially in the nucleus accumbens and the nucleus aygdala. These are two areas which regulate emotion and motivation. Is there any "safe" level of pot smoking? What are the implications, especially if people use medical marijuana?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment