Understanding Marijuana and Your Brain
Featured Image: The cycle a marijuana addicted brain will enter as the need for more and more weed is required to reach the same “high”. The mechani...
Month: December 2021
Lights Out on Light Sleep
Night time light exposure is seemingly common. From working into the night hours to binge watching your favorite Netflix series, we are constantly bombarded wit...
Neurodegenerative Diseases: Is Cannabis the Answer?
Background: Endocannabinoids are gaining media exposure as many states are legalizing the recreational and medicinal use of marijuana, which contains the numero...
Cannabinoid Use to Reduce Pain
By Hannah P. How do we feel pain? When we feel pain sensory receptors in our skin send a message via nerve fibres, A-delta fibres and C fibres, to the spinal c...
Endocannabinoids: The Modern Day Elixir of Life
Figure 1: A generic picture of medicinal marijuana. What are cannabinoid receptors? Cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 are receptors on the presynaptic side of a...
Adenosine’s effect on sleep
Overview of the circadian rhythm The circadian rhythm regulation plays a crucial role in people’s healthy lives affected by factors consisting of cosmic events ...
Marijuana’s long-term effect on the brain
Cannabinoids in the brain Cannabinoids are popular in both recreational and medical use. The primary active constituent of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa is del...
The Endocannabinoid System and Mood
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is responsible for regulating one’s sleep, mood, memory, and appetite. AN indidivual’s reporduction and fertility c...
eCB: Protect and Regenerate following TBI
TBI and eCBS Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are injuries to the nervous system in which many harmful biochemical mechanisms take place. Particularly, there is h...