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The Brain
Consequences
100
Teen Pot Use Could Hurt Brain and Memory, New Research Suggests
What is the name of the article?
100
Chicago
What is the location (name of the city) of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine?
100
12/16/2014
What is the month, day and year of this article?
100
memory
What is one of the functions of the brain which is negatively impacted by marijuana use?
100
Neurodevelopment
What is a very long word that means "brain development"?
200
Brian Alexander
What is the name of person who wrote this article?
200
Northwestern University
What is the name of the university which houses the Feinberg School of Medicine?
200
44
What is number of people in the control group of the research project who were healthy, did not have schizophrenia, and did not smoke marijuana?
200
Reasoning
What is one of the functions of the brain that is negatively impacted by marijuana use?
200
The negative effects on the brain caused by marijuana use are long term and may even be permanent, particularly when the person smokes when their brains are still developing (perhaps up until the age of 21 years).
How long do the negative effects on the brain caused by marijuana use last?
300
NBC News
What is the name of the news source of this article?
300
brain
What word is missing from this quote taken directly from the article? "If you throw stuff into the ______ that's not supposed to be there, there are long-term implications."
300
10
What is the number of people in the research project who had a history of marijuana use disorder but did not have schizophrenia?
300
impulse control
What is one of the functions of the brain that is negatively impacted by marijuana use?
300
Abnormal
The younger the pot smoker, the more ____________ their brain MRI scan results.
400
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
What is name of the government agency/organization which provided the following statistic: "The number of twelve to seventeen year olds who smoke marijuana fell to 9.5% last year from almost 12% in 2002."?
400
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
What does the abbreviation "PNAS" stand for?
400
15
What is the number of people who were in the research group which had both schizophrenia and marijuana use disorder?
400
Sub-cortical region
What is name of the region of the brain where primitive structures that are part of the memory and reasoning circuits are found?
400
Neuropsychological decline
What is one of the findings of the PNA research on adults who smoked pot regularly as teens, even if they stopped using pot long before they participated in the study?
500
Matthew Smith
What is name of the research team leader from Northwestern University who contributed to the information presented in this article?
500
The United States
What is the name of the country where the legalization of medical marijuana is under debate and where, if legalized, raises increased concern regarding the possibility of easier access to marijuana by underage recreation use of marijuana?
500
28
What is number of people in the research group who had schizophrenia but did not have marijuana use disorder?
500
They still showed brain alterations and performed worse on memory tests, even after they stopped smoking pot for more than two years.
What happened despite the fact that former heavy users of marijuana had not indulged in smoking pot for more than two years before the being tested by the research team?
500
More cognitive problems
What type of problems that researchers from the PNAS discover among the adults tested who smoked pot regularly as teens, even if they stopped using pot long before the study?
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