The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.

Avoiding cannabis use before certain cognitive tasks could improve performance Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 and his work has ...

Your brain may not bounce back as quickly as you think after you smoke weed. A groundbreaking new study suggests that heavy marijuana use could leave lasting marks on your memory, long after your last ...

A study by the University of Colorado found heavy cannabis use affects working memory in young adults. 63% of heavy cannabis users showed reduced brain activity during memory tasks. Researchers ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then completely forgotten where to find them? The brain has to work hard to protect information in your working memory from distractions. How this process works ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users showed reduced brain activity during a working memory task. Not ...

Your working memory plays a crucial role in how you process and retain information daily. It affects everything from ...

Have you ever put your keys down and then quickly forgotten where to find them? When you try to recall where you might have left them, you are drawing on working memory, which is the ability to ...

In a new study published in Neuron titled, “Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms,” researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of ...