{"id":11251,"date":"2015-08-07T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=11251"},"modified":"2017-10-19T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:58:28","slug":"cannabis-causes-chaos-in-the-brain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2015\/08\/cannabis-causes-chaos-in-the-brain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis causes chaos in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Cannabis causes chaos in the brain as nerve activity becomes uncoordinated and inaccurate, a study has found. The results may help explain links between cannabis and schizophrenia, scientists believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Researchers at the University of Bristol measured the brain responses of rats given a drug that mimics the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. They found that the drug completely disrupted coordinated brain waves across the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. The first brain region plays a key role in the formation of memories. The second is essential to planning, decision making and social behaviour. Both are heavily implicated in schizophrenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Rats exposed to the cannabis like drug became unable to make accurate decisions when navigating through a maze. The research is reported in the Journal of Neuroscience. Study leader Dr Matt Jones said: &#8220;Marijuana abuse is common among sufferers of schizophrenia and recent studies have shown that the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana can induce some symptoms of schizophrenia in healthy volunteers. &#8220;These findings are therefore important for our understanding of psychiatric diseases, which may arise as a consequence of &#8216;dis-orchestrated brains&#8217; and could be treated by retuning brain activity.&#8221; Co-author Michal Kucewicz, also from the University of Bristol, said: &#8220;These results are an important step forward in our understanding of how rhythmic activity in the brain underlies thought processes in health and disease.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><em>Source: &#8216;Cannabis causes chaos in the brain&#8217; http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/healthandfamilies\/healthnews\/cannabiscauseschaosinthebrain. 8\/05\/2015 The research was part of a Medical Research Council funded collaboration between the university and drug company Eli Lilly &amp; Co.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis causes chaos in the brain as nerve activity becomes uncoordinated and inaccurate, a study has found. The results may help explain links between cannabis and schizophrenia, scientists believe. Researchers at the University of Bristol measured the brain responses of rats given a drug that mimics the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. They found that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,30,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-and-behaviour","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-various-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}