'Promising Lead' in Counteracting Negative Effects of Marijuana Use: Study | CTV News

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CTV London: Picking your brain Researchers find way to reverse negative effects of pot use in the brains of teens. Celine Moreau reports.

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Published Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:30AM EDT

Western University researchers might have found a way to reverse the negative effects of the psycho-active ingredient in marijuana on the adolescent brain.

Chronic cannabis use during adolescence has been linked to the development of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia later in adulthood. Advertisement But, according to a new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal on Tuesday, there might be a way to reverse this.

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CTV News Channel: Child neglect “What this could mean is that if you are going to be using marijuana, in a recreational or medicinal sentencing way, you can potentially combine it with compounds that boost GABA to block the negative effects of THC,” he said in a statement.

B.C. road rage incident caught on Laviolette and his team are now looking towards finding more effective and safer treatments for camera mental health disorders, such as addiction, depression and anxiety.

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