Kazera Global PLC climbs as €9 1m funding package comes closer to fruition proactiveinvestors.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from proactiveinvestors.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When does a bruise on an infant or young child signal abuse? eurekalert.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurekalert.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
April 16, 2014
Researchers at Northwestern University analyzed the relationship between casual use of marijuana and brain changes in a pilot study. They found that young adults who used cannabis just once or twice a week showed significant abnormalities in important brain structures that could lead to substantial problems in brain development and behavior.
The study’s findings, to be published Wednesday in the
Journal of Neuroscience, are similar to those of past research linking chronic, long-term marijuana use with mental illness and changes in brain development.
“There were abnormalities in their working memory, which is fundamental to everything you do,” Dr. Hans Breiter, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told FoxNews.com. “When you make judgments or decisions, plan things, do mathematics – anything you do always involves working memory. It’s one of the core fundamental aspects of our br