{"539611":{"#nid":"539611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Studies yield mixed findings on how marijuana affects the brain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?m=2015082701ama\u0026amp;r=6127647-279e\u0026amp;l=018-e8e\u0026amp;t=c\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENBC News\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(8\/27, Fox) reports on two studies published in JAMA Psychiatry that examine the effect of marijuana on the brain. In the first\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?m=2015082701ama\u0026amp;r=6127647-279e\u0026amp;l=019-eea\u0026amp;t=c\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E, which used MRI, investigators compared the brains of marijuana users to non-users. The results seemed to suggest that marijuana users \u201chad some shrinkage in two brain regions called the amygdala and the right ventral striatum,\u201d but when researchers compared marijuana users to their siblings, \u201cthe differences disappeared.\u201d Meanwhile, a second\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?m=2015082701ama\u0026amp;r=6127647-279e\u0026amp;l=01a-aae\u0026amp;t=c\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cfound that marijuana appears to change the brain structure of young men with a high genetic risk of schizophrenia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Studies suggest that marijuana changes the structure of the brain."}],"uid":"30687","created_gmt":"2016-05-24 14:01:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:46","author":"Nathaniel Barnwell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"542121":{"id":"542121","type":"image","title":"Stamps placeholder image","body":null,"created":"1465333200","gmt_created":"2016-06-07 21:00:00","changed":"1475895329","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:29","alt":"Stamps placeholder image","file":{"fid":"90679","name":"logo_gt_shs.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png","mime":"image\/png","size":29036,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/logo_gt_shs.png?itok=e75JTDvr"}}},"media_ids":["542121"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?l=018-e8e\u0026m=2015082701ama\u0026r=6127647-279e\u0026t=c","title":"NBC News report"},{"url":"http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?l=019-eea\u0026m=2015082701ama\u0026r=6127647-279e\u0026t=c","title":"MRI study"},{"url":"http:\/\/mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com\/mailview.aspx?l=01a-aae\u0026m=2015082701ama\u0026r=6127647-279e\u0026t=c","title":"Second study"}],"groups":[{"id":"428961","name":"Health and Well-Being"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172060","name":"health blog"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}