“If you increase the prevalence of marijuana users, you are going to increase the prevalence of people who have adverse consequences,” said Dr. Deborah Hasin.
The findings have the potential to shift the view of Alzheimer’s as a disease that destroys memories to a disease that disrupts the brain’s ability to recall memories.
“We can use social experience as a probe for what might be relevant to the social symptoms in ASD at a molecular level,” says Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele.