Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet
crime@hexbear.net 1 week agoWith the low sample size of the study, I wonder how much of that is confounding variables. I know when I’ve been at my heaviest cannabis usage, my life was falling apart and I was using it to cope with a shitload of stress — which is known to cause short-term and working memory impairments.
Then you’ve also got, say, ADHDers (diagnosed or otherwise). We’ve literally got dogshit working memory disorder and as a population we tend to love substances (on account of the underactive reward circuits in our brains).
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I haven’t read the full study, but as the article says the effects lingered for 2-4 weeks, it sounds like the retesting after abstaining would eliminate confounding variables. Unless they somehow resolved the stress or ADHD at the same time.
crime@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Seems as though they didn’t retest, they only scanned people once. Scanning people is expensive and getting people to show back up for a second scan is difficult. The abstention periods are likely based on self-reports.