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And that worked directly showed cannabis affects, mirrored some of the changes we saw this devastating illness known as schizophrenia. right there that should give one pause. it also damages a part of your cognitive or mental function known as working memory. and its fundamental to everything you do, for planning, for making decisions and judgments. this data got us quite worried. so we said lets take a look at just casual use. when we looked at casual use, we found two core fundamental regions ...

In the past several weeks, the virus has spread through west africa killing more than 100 people and right now, official, trying to keep the uncurable disease contained. the nypd has business banned a special unit that used to use undercover officers to spy on militants. this is the first sign that the new commissioner william bratten is moving away from 9/11 practices. and a new study from northwest university shows casual marijuana use is linked to abnormalities in the brain. specifically ...

Im curious to find out how many other channels reported this. how many times have you heard, weve got to decriminalize pot, make it legal because pot is one of those drugs that is safe. now we know from those guys at harvard that did 3-d scans of students who use pot casually and those who didnt. it turns out that pot can damage your brain permanently even if you use it once or twice a week. >> there were two key brain regions they looked at. harvard had done a study, northwestern also for the f...

By boat. dozens more were said to be injured by the flood waters or debris. nearly 2 million live in gaza. secretary of state john kerry insists america not abandon iran. bob levinson was missing since 2007. a report from the associated press and washington post says he was working for the cia. kerry says the levinson issue has been raised at the highest level and the u.s. is trying to verify if he is still alive. new research on the long-term implications of marijuana use. a study in the jour...

Grail, their number one priority, the one unifying principle in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people dont have health care. >> so perry, there are some republicans who see the potential political disaster that would come from actually forcing a shutdown. they can remember 1995, bill clinton, newt gingrich, that shutdown. thats two decades ago. i wonder how many republicans in congress have a working memory of that. there seems to clearly be a divide in the rep...

A lot of people take naps. we see how good napping is for you. that is to make your mind rest. what you want to do, what is happening, your inner mind, your sub conscience, working memory needs to relax and create the chemistry because all great creative ideas come from neurons and the buy lot of the brain, so if you try to suppress it with the noise. this is a perfect example as to why social media is going to kill us all. at the end of the day, the texting the computer, the ipad. youve got to ...

Half tested for memory without sleep did not retain new information as well. whats happening in the brain making sleep so important for us? >> its literal rewiring the brain, renewing the brain. memories coming in have to get consolidat consolidated. thats whats happening in sleep. sleep is literally a altering experience. >> so, when we talk about this memories need to be saturated into our memory banks through only sleep because we can make a logical memory -- we can have a memory about having...

Brain stimulation in general is said to hold great potential. as a student in some studies test subjects were given working memory exercises they had to remember sequences of numbers and if you do that over the course of a week using stimulation four months later you discover that the ones who received the stimulation still have a better capacity than those who didnt see the needs to be. and researchers elsewhere are also turning out exciting results the team in the us likewise experimenting wit...