/newsroom/taxonomy/term/15033/all en /newsroom/channels/news/cannabis-disrupts-brain-activity-young-adults-prone-psychosis-study-361318 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p> <p>Young adults at risk of psychosis show reduced brain connectivity, a deficit that cannabis use appears to worsen, a new study has found. The breakthrough paves the way for psychosis treatments targeting symptoms that current medications miss.</p> <p>In the first-of-its-kind study, 91ÉçÇø researchers detected a marked decrease in synaptic density—the connections between neurons that enable brain communication—in individuals at risk of psychosis, compared to a healthy control group.</p> Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:37:01 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 314842 at /newsroom /newsroom/phoebe-friesen Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:09:35 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 297450 at /newsroom /newsroom/srividya-iyer Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:52:53 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288234 at /newsroom /newsroom/bruno-debruille Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23140 at /newsroom