Cannabis research: Clare Hall members explore affects on cognition and psychology
Research by Professor Barbara Sahakian (Fellow of Clare Hall); Dr Christelle Langley (Affiliated Postdoc); Martine Skumlien (PhD candidate at Cambridge); and Tianye Jia (Fudan University) interrogates how the drug cannabis affects the human mind.
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In three recent studies published in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, Neuropsychopharmacology and the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, the research group demonstrates that cannabis can influence a number of cognitive and psychological processes, including those relating to risk-taking, motivation and pleasure.
Learn more via this article: https://theconversation.com/cannabis-how-it-affects-our-cognition-and-psychology-new-research-180987