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psychiatry
About this tag
The psychiatry tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about mental health, psychiatric ethics, and the effects of substances on the brain. Topics include the debate over psychiatrists publicly commenting on political figures' mental state, such as the gag rule controversy involving Donald Trump, and research on how heavy marijuana use may shrink brain regions like the hippocampus and amygdala. These threads reflect interest in the intersection of psychiatry with politics and neuroscience.
A study of brain scans show that heavy pot smoking can shrink parts of the brain, according to researchers in the Link Removed due to 404 Error Archives of General Psychiatry.
Men who smoked at least five marijuana cigarettes daily for 20 years were shown to have a diminished hippocampus and...