Cannabis good for the brains

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Memory performance decreases with increasing age. Cannabis can reverse these ageing processes in the brain. This was shown in mice by scientists at the University of Bonn with their colleagues at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Old animals were able to regress to the state of two-month-old mice with a prolonged low-dose treatment with a cannabis active ingredient. This opens up new options, for instance, when it comes to treating dementia. The results are now presented in the journal Nature Medicine.

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Book recommendation

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Read the review, the short:

Joseph Jebelli’s personal study of a disease that has reached epidemic proportions offers the latest research – but not much hope

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Death rate from Alzheimer’s has increased 55% over 15 years

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Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, affects about 5.5 million Americans – a number that’s expected to balloon to 13.8 million by 2050.

As the incidence of people living with the neurodegenerative disease has gone up, the death rate has as well.

Between 1999 and 2014, the rate of deaths related to Alzheimer’s in the US increased 55 percent, to 25.4 deaths per 100,000 people, according to data released Friday from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

But there is also good news:

A Global Plan on Dementia has been adopted by the WHO, this is a big deal!

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