What backs up the concept of a permanent decrease in cognitive function, "frying your brain," using drugs, alcohol, not sleeping enough, etc? If so, what does it effect specifically? What I've seen from drug abusers personally is generally bad memory and lack of self awareness. According to an interview with a neuropsychiatrist, cannabis damages your prefrontal cortex, I'll link the video, can't find the study though.
Can you really fry your brain?
Jackson Turner
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Austin Allen
Yes, of course drugs damage your brain permanently.
Cameron Barnes
No doubt. A simpler form of my question is more: how and why do they make you "stupid?"
Oliver Fisher
Imagine someone hacked your cell phone and caused it to discharge far more energy than normal, draining the battery, very soon it will switch off. Drugs have an equivalent effect on your brain cells, causing them to release neurochemicals and place stress on their supporting astrocytes, sometimes they can't cope and cells "switch off". Unfortunately when a living cell "switches off" it dies and most neurons can't be replaced.
Ethan Rivera
>drugs damage your brain permanently.
Vaccines are a drug.
Please be more specific about which drugs or how it works
Daniel Brown
and marijuana has this effect of releasing too much energy?
Jackson Clark
>t. a fucking junkie
there are many complex mechanisms, many of which are not well understood.
However there's no need to understand the mechanisms to avoid brain damage, just stay away from drugs.
I guess that you want to get high without consequences or something?
William Perez
Wouldn't masturbation or exceptional feelings of excitement, and stress have the same effect?
Lucas Ortiz
Certainly not the same. We're talking about orders of magnitude in difference.
But of course multiple years of continuous stress or other extreme states will have a damaging effect (ie due to HBP, vasocostriction etc)
Tyler Gonzalez
some chemicals / drugs most certainly do fry your brain. several different mechanisms exist. go look for literature on the effects of glue / paint / solvent huffing and see what you find.
As for marijuana's effects on the brain, I'll wait until it's legalized to the point that legitimate research can be conducted before I believe anything
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