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.
Science Daily: Cannabis reverses aging processes in the brain, study suggests
Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmer (left) and the North Rhine-Westphalia science minister Svenja Schulze (centre) in the lab of the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry at University of Bonn.
Credit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn
Ed: looks like they have been sampling the ganja together
Pat Robertson is seriously not going to dig this!
Here's a tip on that, mate: Pat Robertson doesn't dig anything. He's still bitter because people didn't want his dumb ass for President.
Even those stoners at RT got into the act. (RT: Daily dose of cannabis extract could help memory in old age - study)
Ed: how do you know they're stoners?
They stay cool and anyone who can stay that way in a world full of shit pants halfwits has got to be a stoner.
Ed: shit pants halfwits?
I saw that in an article about how the women of Jamestown in 1670 expressed themselves and I liked the term.
Researchers have long been looking for ways to slow down or even reverse this process.
Scientists at the University of Bonn and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have now achieved this in mice. These animals have a relatively short life expectancy in nature and display pronounced cognitive deficits even at twelve months of age. The researchers administered a small quantity of THC, the active ingredient in the hemp plant (cannabis), to mice aged two, twelve and 18 months over a period of four weeks.
Afterwards, they tested learning capacity and memory performance in the animals -- including, for instance, orientation skills and the recognition of other mice. Mice who were only given a placebo displayed natural age-dependent learning and memory losses. In contrast, the cognitive functions of the animals treated with cannabis were just as good as the two-month-old control animals. "The treatment completely reversed the loss of performance in the old animals," reported Prof. Andreas Zimmer from the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry at the University of Bonn and member of the Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation.
- RT
Ed: blinding the nong nongs with science isn't going to make them sentient!
It's not my purpose to educate nong nongs since, as you observe, it's impossible, particularly after we saw a fellow busted earlier this evening for 'trafficking in narcotics.' He was selling ganja. No amount of education will bring light to the dark room of that author.
A low dose of the administered THC was chosen so that there was no intoxicating effect in the mice. Cannabis products are already permitted as medications, for instance as pain relief. As a next step, the researchers want to conduct a clinical trial to investigate whether THC also reverses ageing processes in the brain in humans and can increase cognitive ability.
The North Rhine-Westphalia science minister Svenja Schulze appeared thrilled by the study: "The promotion of knowledge-led research is indispensable, as it is the breeding ground for all matters relating to application. Although there is a long path from mice to humans, I feel extremely positive about the prospect that THC could be used to treat dementia, for instance."
- SD
Ed: you have certainly been using it to treat your dementia!
That was not my purpose but I do marvel at its efficacy.
The beauty part of the above is I'm sure you are familiar with low-dose aspirin as a prophylactic for various cardiac problems but this research looks like it's headed for low-dose cannabis as a prophylactic for, well, everything else.
Science Daily: Cannabis reverses aging processes in the brain, study suggests
Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmer (left) and the North Rhine-Westphalia science minister Svenja Schulze (centre) in the lab of the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry at University of Bonn.
Credit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn
Ed: looks like they have been sampling the ganja together
Pat Robertson is seriously not going to dig this!
Here's a tip on that, mate: Pat Robertson doesn't dig anything. He's still bitter because people didn't want his dumb ass for President.
Even those stoners at RT got into the act. (RT: Daily dose of cannabis extract could help memory in old age - study)
Ed: how do you know they're stoners?
They stay cool and anyone who can stay that way in a world full of shit pants halfwits has got to be a stoner.
Ed: shit pants halfwits?
I saw that in an article about how the women of Jamestown in 1670 expressed themselves and I liked the term.
Researchers have long been looking for ways to slow down or even reverse this process.
Scientists at the University of Bonn and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have now achieved this in mice. These animals have a relatively short life expectancy in nature and display pronounced cognitive deficits even at twelve months of age. The researchers administered a small quantity of THC, the active ingredient in the hemp plant (cannabis), to mice aged two, twelve and 18 months over a period of four weeks.
Afterwards, they tested learning capacity and memory performance in the animals -- including, for instance, orientation skills and the recognition of other mice. Mice who were only given a placebo displayed natural age-dependent learning and memory losses. In contrast, the cognitive functions of the animals treated with cannabis were just as good as the two-month-old control animals. "The treatment completely reversed the loss of performance in the old animals," reported Prof. Andreas Zimmer from the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry at the University of Bonn and member of the Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation.
- RT
Ed: blinding the nong nongs with science isn't going to make them sentient!
It's not my purpose to educate nong nongs since, as you observe, it's impossible, particularly after we saw a fellow busted earlier this evening for 'trafficking in narcotics.' He was selling ganja. No amount of education will bring light to the dark room of that author.
A low dose of the administered THC was chosen so that there was no intoxicating effect in the mice. Cannabis products are already permitted as medications, for instance as pain relief. As a next step, the researchers want to conduct a clinical trial to investigate whether THC also reverses ageing processes in the brain in humans and can increase cognitive ability.
The North Rhine-Westphalia science minister Svenja Schulze appeared thrilled by the study: "The promotion of knowledge-led research is indispensable, as it is the breeding ground for all matters relating to application. Although there is a long path from mice to humans, I feel extremely positive about the prospect that THC could be used to treat dementia, for instance."
- SD
Ed: you have certainly been using it to treat your dementia!
That was not my purpose but I do marvel at its efficacy.
The beauty part of the above is I'm sure you are familiar with low-dose aspirin as a prophylactic for various cardiac problems but this research looks like it's headed for low-dose cannabis as a prophylactic for, well, everything else.
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