Study On Acute and Chronic Effect Of Cannabis On Human Cognition

Abstract

Background-Cognition is the complex higher neurological function and includes abstraction, perception, higher level thinking, problem solving and to executive functions. Cognition is a word that came in beginning of 15th century. The word comes from the Latin word and#8213;cognoscereand#8214; which means accusation of information that have acquired through learning or experience. Cognition is the process and agreements which divulges how people observe, learn, recall, and think near information. In 2005, Solso defined Cognition as and#8213;the study of processes original mental events And high mental process that is concerned with how people acquire, supply, transform, use and communicate linguisticand#8214;. These processes also include attention, sensory information; pattern recognition, the process through which we classify stimuli into known categories; and memory, Thus, the work of cognitive psychologist is lengthy to a number of parts, which can be depicted as attention, perception, memory, language, knowledge and cognitive development. Cognitive impairment is common in cannabis users and is evident in a broad range of domains such as attention, memory, executive functioning and information processing speed (Gold et al., 1993; Saying et al., 1994). Further, significant research has demonstrated its clinical and functional significance. Because of the severity and contribution to functional compromise, cognitive impairment is often considered the core features of cannabis users. Ample evidence shows that cognitive impairment is an important condition in substance and cannabis (McGurk et al., 2005; McGurk. Method-Based on purposive sampling method a group of 30 acute cannabis Male/Female subjects and 30 chronic cannabis Male and Female subjects selected between the age ranges of 18 to 40 years. ICD10. Semi structure Performa was used for recording details about the patient such as age, education, marital status, onset of illness etc. all the participants were between the age 18 to 40 age criteria, and education level up to 12th.