Stoned rats and post-traumatic stress disorder
Strange things pass as ›psychological research‹ these days. According to the Times of India, Irit Akirav and Eti Ganon-Elazar conducted an experiment with rats, where some of the rats were given synthetic cannabinoids (that is, marijuana) after being exposed to extreme stress (unfortunately, I have no access to the original article). A week after, some of the rats ›did indeed display symptoms resembling PTSD in humans‹—but not the ones that were administered marijuana a short while after the traumatic event. After repeating the experiment, where they injected marijuana directly into the amygdala, they could ›conclude that the effect of the marijuana is mediated by a CB1 receptor in the amygdala‹.
Seriously?