Dr. Natasha Wade is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego and licensed Clinical Neuropsychologist. She has 15+ years of experience researching the relationship between substance use (and particularly cannabis use) and brain-behavior relationships. She is also interested in mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental changes related to substance use, screen/phone use, improving measurement methods, and toxicology. Her research identifies how patterns of self-reported cannabis use and objectively measured cannabinoid exposure from toxicology relate to cognition and brain health over time in adolescents and young adults.
Where are we with understanding the health effects of cannabis?
Cannabis seems to be everywhere, in many forms. We’re learning more about its effect on teenage brains and its usefulness as a therapeutic.