Pentola normale fumatori hanno il cervello rimpicciolite, studio dice

Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, in media, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is a key node in the brain’s reward, motivazione, decision-making and addictive behaviors network.

More ambiguously, in regular pot smokers, that region is better connected than it is in non-users: the flow of signal traffic is speedier to other parts of that motivation and decision-making network, including across the superhighway of “white matter” that connects the brain’s hemispheres.

LEGGI TUTTO: LA Times