Flutterby™! : Marijuana & memory 2012-03-03 17:53:24.435098+01

Marijuana & memory

2012-03-03 17:53:24.435098+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Science Daily: How marijuana impairs memory, at least, allegedly, on "working memory" in mice:

Marijuana's major psychoactive ingredient (THC) impairs memory independently of its direct effects on neurons. The side effects stem instead from the drug's action on astroglia, passive support cells long believed to play second fiddle to active neurons.

reporting on work by Giovanni Marsicano of INSERM in France and Xia Zhang of the University of Ottawa in Canada in the journal Cell.

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