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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #48148 Cannabis
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Cannabis  is  a  widely  used  substance  that  can  have  various  effects  on  the  brain  and  behavior.  One  of  the  aspects  that  cannabis  may  influence  is    people  perceive  and  respond  to  emotions,  both  their  own  and  others.  A  new  study  by  researchers  at  Colorado  State  University  sheds  some  light  on  the  way  cannabis  affects  the  recognition  and  processing  of  human  emotions  like  happiness,  sadness  and  anger.  The  study  used  an  electroencephalogram  to  measure  the  brain  activity  of  about  70  volunteers,  who    themselves  as  chronic,  moderate  or  non-users  of  cannabis.  The  participants  were  shown  faces  with  different    and  asked  to  either  identify  the  emotion  or  the  sex  of  the  face.  The  researchers  found  that  cannabis  users  showed  more  brain  activity  when  they  saw  negative  emotions,    anger,  than  non-users.  However,  cannabis  users  also  showed  less  brain  activity  when  they  saw  positive  emotions,  such  as  happiness,  than  non-users.  The  researchers  concluded  that  cannabis  affects  the  brains  ability  to  process  emotion,  but  that  the  brain  may  be  able  to  successfully    the  effects,  depending  on  whether  the  emotions  are  explicitly  or  implicitly  detected.  

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