Researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City have received a $740,000 grant to study how the brain responds to ingredients found in marijuana.
Jeffrey S. Anderson, MD, PhD, from the school’s department of radiology, will be the study’s co-principal investigator, according to a report from the Deseret News. The researchers plan to use brain imaging for the two-year study.
“It's surprising how much is unknown about basic neuroscience and how cannabis affects the brain,” Anderson said, as quoted by the Deseret News. “We hope to make it simple. We want to understand what exactly it is doing and, for medical applications, we would like to understand how it works, not just if it works.”
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