Early use of cannabis affects the working memory of adolescents, but its deleterious effect is more pronounced in girls, posing a risk to their academic success as well as to their memory when they reach adulthood.
These are the findings of a study conducted by Sima Noorbakhsh of the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, under the direction of Professor Patricia Conrod of the Department of Psychiatry and Addictology of Université de Montréal. This work is the subject of a scientific article published in early April in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
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