How Marijuana Destroys Your Memory

The with child ethnic stereotype of pot smoking compartment is the aging hippy , his or her encephalon turned to mush by too many old age of the demon smoke . But it turn out that marijuana really does mar your memory in the shortsighted condition — and now we understand how that happens .

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A Modern man of research release in Cellargues that it ’s not that THC is affect the neuron directly . Rather , the evidence show it ’s hitting the neuronic support organisation — astrocytes . Also sometimes called astroglia , these cells have generally been see as less authoritative than neurons , but their role is now becoming well understood .

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Both astrocytes and neurons have cannabinoid type-1 ( CB1R ) receptors , and the researchers equate the effects of THC on mice , one group of which were mutant without the sensory receptor on their astrocytes , the other without them on the neuron . What they light upon is that the shiner without the astrocyte CB1R receptor did n’t have the disablement of spatial working memory , where those lacking the sensory receptor on the neuron did . So it ’s the astrocytes which make the memory problems when one takes cannabinoids .

This raises question about the role that astrocyte play in forming memory , and how the cannabinoids in your body interact with them . And yes , it means we might even be able to engineer a tetrahydrocannabinol using drug that does n’t eff with your computer storage .

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2012.01.037

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