Beware! Smoking weed may decrease
your creative thinking capabilities
Do you like to be high
on weed? Well, one should stop taking weed as it not only harms their health
but also reduces their creative thinking capabilities.
A new study
has found that smoking weed may put you at risk of losing your creativity as
well as make you less aware of your mistakes. The findings showed that cannabis
users were less able to brainstorm, a mental process that is crucial for
creative performance.
Mikael Kowal,
Psychologist at the Leiden University in the Netherlands said that there are a
widespread belief among users that these drugs enhance creativity. This
experiment disproves that belief.
Kowal also
demonstrated that for chronic users, the brain processes involved in monitoring
mistakes also work less effectively. A high dose of cannabis seems to influence
both the unconscious processing of mistakes and the later and more conscious
stages of error processing.
Kowal further added,''
It is important that we gather more knowledge about the effects of cannabis on
a person's ability to detect mistakes. This can help with putting together a
treatment programme for drug addiction''.
In addition,
the research also indicated that cannabis disrupts the activity of dopamine --
a chemical in the brain important for the proper working of the brain and also
plays a role in learning performance.
With chronic
users a significant reduction was seen in the frequency of spontaneous eye
blinking, an indication of a reduction in dopamine production, the researchers
said, in the paper published in the journal PhD defence.
In the study
the researchers assessed 40 regular users of cannabis, to study the direct and
chronic effects of cannabis on dopamine-related functions, such as creative
thinking and the ability to recognise one's own mistakes.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
06.10.2016
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