Sometimes, our brains can trick us into remembering things that never happened.
These memory ‘mistakes’ are seen more frequently in psychiatric disorders and old age – and now researchers have revealed why they are also more common in cannabis users.
Using neuroimaging, researchers discovered that the brains of heavy cannabis have a less active hippocampus compared with the general population.
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Tags: Brain scans reveal how cannabis smokers can live in their own reality - Ellie Zolfagharifard - DailyMail.co.uk, Brains scans showed Cannabis users have a less active hippocampus, Cannabis users are more likely to live in a distorted reality and have false memories, Memory problems persisted months after someone stopped smoking, Researchers compared a group of Chronic Users of cannabis to a healthy control group while learning a series of words, Researchers discovered that the brains of heavy cannabis have a less active hippocampus compared with the general population, Sometimes our brains can trick us into remembering things that never happened, The study was conducted by the Biomedical Research Institute of Hospital de Sant Pau and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, This is the area that is associated with storing and retrieving memories
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