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Cannabis users are more likely to have distorted memories and can even end up imagining situations that differ from reality, scientists have discovered.
Researchers used neuroimaging to look at the brains of heavy cannabis users compared with healthy people and found the former group have a less active hippocampus – a structure related to the storage of memories.
The findings were published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry and sheds light on why one of the side effects of consuming the drug is memory problems.
Scientists from the Biomedical Research Institute of Hospital de Sant Pau and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona also found chronic cannabis users had more difficulties than the general population in storing and recovering memories, as well as having a greater tendency towards imaginary or false memories.
Memory creation is a flexible progress that can be subject to distortions – our brain can remember things that...
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