The Daily Free Press recounts the HUBWeek event in which Center Director Bruce Rosen and medical illustrator Danny Quirk spoke about the intersectionality of human anatomy and visual art.
Casual marijuana use changes brain structures involved in reward, emotion and motivation
April 15, 2014
Even casual use of marijuana appears to cause significant structural changes in key brain structures of young adults, a new study finds. In a report in the April 16 Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from the MGH Martinos Center and Northwestern University describe finding differences between casual users of marijuana and non-users in the size, shape, and structure of brain regions involved with motivation, emotion and reward. Read more about the study here.