Marijuana against severe epilepsy in children
A medical marijuana extract shows considerable promise as a treatment for epilepsy in young people that could reduce seizures in children with severe epilepsy that usually do not respond to other treatments, according to a study by the Langone Comprenhensive Epilepsy Center at the University of New York ( USA) and published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The study is based on the use of cannabidiol extract, the main component of this plant and which, unlike the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is not psychoactive, so it has no direct effect on the central nervous system or change its functions or perceptions.
In the experiment 213 patients, among young adults and children participated with an average age of 11 and diagnosed with severe epilepsy (seizures involved with to live life), which were administered orally cannabidiol. During the 12 weeks of the study,...
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