Marijuana can change the decision making part of the brain

A cannabis-like drug used by male males of the age of youth alters their brain structure.

A study in mice said that marijuana use during the adolescence can change decision-making areas in the brain.

Using marijuana during the 'teenage' period can change decision making areas in the brain.

Study co-author Eliza Jacobs-Brichford said at the annual meeting of the Neuroscience Association on November 7: "Adolescents" are a sensitive period that easily hurts the brain, especially with drug abuse '.

Jacobs-Brichford and colleagues gave females and males of 'young' age a cannabis-like compound. Later, the researchers saw changes in the brain parts involved in decision making.

Often, many nerve cells are surrounded by hard structures called neural nets , which are stable networks that help stabilize the connections between nerve cells. But in males in the 'youth' age group used a cannabis-like compound, with few neurons, to help block the activity of other cells. The use of the drug does not seem to affect the nets surrounding nerve cells in female mice.

Jacobs-Brichford, a neuroscience scientist at the University of Illinoise in Chicago, said: 'Males seem to be more susceptible to these drugs'.

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