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Proof that Cocaine rots your brain....
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....Says Daily Mail, it states;
'JUST one cocaine binge can permenantly damage long-term memory while repeated use could wreck a career, it emerged yesterday'
Prof Seth Grant says 'People taking cocaine give themselves a form of molecular brain damage, reducing levels of a key gene by upto 50 per cent'
'They found the drug quickly damaged the gene PSD-95 (postsynaptic density 95) which is found at the connecting points between nerve cells and is critical to learning'
So what do you regular users think? How do you think the drug has affected you?
'JUST one cocaine binge can permenantly damage long-term memory while repeated use could wreck a career, it emerged yesterday'
Prof Seth Grant says 'People taking cocaine give themselves a form of molecular brain damage, reducing levels of a key gene by upto 50 per cent'
'They found the drug quickly damaged the gene PSD-95 (postsynaptic density 95) which is found at the connecting points between nerve cells and is critical to learning'
So what do you regular users think? How do you think the drug has affected you?
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I had visions of a brain looking like an old rotting piece of wood.
Don't think anyone's under the impression that it's good for you.
The words "scare" & "monger" immediately spring to mind.
no shit daily mail we never knew that :crazyeyes
you really do learn something new everyday
it sounds like 1964 in america ...you know like they haven't moved on ...
"Cocaine damages your brain forever"
Taking cocaine could cause irreversable brain damage, scientists said yesterday.
Abusing the highly addictive drug could lead to long-term memory loss and learning difficulties, they warned.
Tests on mice showed cocaine inhibited the brain by destroying a key protein, PSD-95, reponsible for learning and long-term memory.
The findings will worry some young high flyers who work in industries where taking cocaine is often part of the culture. Cocaine gives users a high by stimulating an area of the brain known as striatum and leads to a craving for more of the Class A drug.
Seth Grant, professor of Molecular Neurosceince at the University of Edinburgh, told the journal Neuron: "The protein is important in remembering people, places and things.
I would not recomend anyone takes cocaine if they were doing a lot of study or holding down a high level job that requires a lot of thinking."
Its certainly interesting, but most users will ignore it, thinking it makes no difference to them.
I really cant think of any jobs that dont involve some type of thinking, can you?
Bopz
I study philosophy at college, study a couple of quite abstract subjects that i need my brain working for but its not made me slow in anyway... got a brilliant memory for details, my mum is always commenting on it. Ive got grades that im really happy with at college. My short term memory isnt as brilliant as long term but then, i smoke green reguarly.
Of course, thats now after only a few years of use im not saying the studies are wrong because what do i know? Its probably very likely that it damages your brain, but then im so tired of the news commenting that one week 'new proof this drug damages your brain/memory' and next week its another. Its boring me now to be honest.
I do think, that cocaine makes me smarter. If i do homework when ive had a toot it comes out as a work of genius (if i do say so myself)
If i felt that i was getting slower or my memory was dying on me then i would automatically put it down to drugs.
But i do have good work. For philosophy ive only ever got one B, all the rest have been As, im not saying its down to the coke but i always seem to write really good pieces, it makes me think, so much that when i need to sleep my brains still working too much.
But, i dont know the long term effects.
Budda... i have a tendency to ramble anyway luckily all my assignments have word limits so i have to cut the rambling out
Go to work in an office in london, lunch times comes and everyones having a bit of a toot.
Businesses are famous for it, wonder if they realise theres a study which suggests it may make them absolutely crap?
My fellas first day of work at a design consultants, they offered him cocaine. He was 17.