Marijuana Munchies May Come from Scrambled Neuron Signals
Marijuana Munchies May Come from Scrambled Neuron Signals – People who get “the munchies” after smoking marijuana may owe their sudden craving for food to certain neurons in the brain that are normally responsible for suppressing appetite, according to a new study on mice.
In the study, researchers stimulated the mice’s appetites by manipulating the same cellular pathway as the one that mediates marijuana’s effect on the brain. The researchers also looked to see what was going on with the rest of the brain circuitry involved in appetite regulation in the mice whose hunger was stimulated.
The new findings could one day be used to find new ways to treat certain appetite disorders that are common in cancer patients, the researchers said.
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