Smoking cannabis ages the brain by an average of nearly three years, according to new research.
Marijuana was found to ramp up brain aging by 2.8 years making it worse for your mind than bipolar disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Schizophrenics’ brains were found to age by an even greater average of four years.
Boozing was also shown to age the organ by 0.6 years, the research adds.
Brain aging is defined as reduced blood flow through the organ. Read More...
Explore More The success of Apollo 11 was lauded as one of man’s greatest achievements and sparked a historic surge of support for space exploration that is being revived in modern times.
But behind the headlines and an international victory tour were several devastating personal tragedies that have been partially credited with driving the mission.
The first was the death of Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong’s toddler daughter, Karen, from a brain tumor in 1962. Read More...
In the 1980s, when the calendar turned from April to May, Dot Burghard would take out the envelopes and blue pens and start a process that would last seven months or longer.
Burghard, a volunteer at the Office of the Vice President in Houston, spent her summers and falls addressing envelopes for a massive undertaking: George H.W. Bush’s Christmas card list. The operation, which had around 30,000 recipients at its peak, required a start date two seasons before the holidays. Read More...
