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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Another study from the
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school of science.

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/02/04/1920162117
We exampled the effects of cannabis on the susceptibility to form spontaneous and suggestion-based false memories and generally found more false memories in intoxicated participants. These elevated false-memory rates were observed in all paradigms and were most pronounced in the immediate condition, when memory tests took place while people were still acutely intoxicated. This fits well with research suggesting that cannabis robustly increases false memory at the retrieval stage (i.e., the memory test; ref. 20). However, some effects in the DRM persisted after 1 wk when people were sober again, indicating some THC-induced encoding (i.e., intake of information) impairments as well.
Cannabis increases susceptibility to false memory
 
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Today is the 30th Anniversary of this famous poem by Carl Sagen.

The view was obtained on Feb. 14, 1990, just minutes before Voyager 1's cameras were intentionally powered off to conserve power

Funny enough, I just watched (again) a couple of days ago the movie "Contact" ... I never get tired of watching it...
 
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