The study concluded that “chronic, low-dose treatment with THC or cannabis extracts could be a potential strategy to slow down or even to reverse cognitive decline in the elderly.”
The “results reveal a profound, long-lasting improvement of cognitive performance resulting from a low dose of THC treatment in mature and old animals,” the study said.
Ultimately, the study could help find a treatment to stave off cognitive decline in the elderly.
"If we can rejuvenate the brain so that everybody gets five to 10 more years without needing extra care, then that is more than we could have imagined," Andras Bilkei-Gorzo, the lead study researcher with the University of Bonn, told The Guardian.
Clinical trials on humans are planned for later this year, and scientists said the impaired performance impact of THC on younger mice deserves more research, too.
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