{"id":5371,"date":"2016-01-14T22:50:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T22:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=46243"},"modified":"2016-01-14T22:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T22:50:28","slug":"israeli-research-on-humans-demonstrates-thc-helps-alzheimers-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/israeli-research-on-humans-demonstrates-thc-helps-alzheimers-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Research On Humans Demonstrates THC Helps Alzheimer\u2019s Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/israeli-research-on-humans-demonstrates-thc-helps-alzheimers-patients\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>According to researchers at Tel-Aviv University, adding tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to the treatment of patients suffering with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease provides \u201ca potential treatment\u201d for the deadly degenerative neurological disease.<\/p>\n<p>Costing America a little over $200 billion in 2013, Alzheimer\u2019s Disease currently affects more than 5 million US citizens. As 1in 3 seniors face the unpleasant reality of doing battle with AD or some other form of dementia in their lifetime, Alzheimer&#8217;s remains firmly entrenched atop the top 10 causes of death in the United States. Coming in at number six.<\/p>\n<p>After successfully conducting one of the first clinical studies of marijuana\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2014\/10\/study-thc-boosts-survival-rate-of-head-trauma-patients\/\">THC cannabinoid<\/a> on human Alzheimer\u2019s patients, scientists at Israel&#8217;s Abarbanel Mental Health Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, along with the Department of Psychology, at Bar-Ilan University reported \u201csignificant reduction&#8221; in the severity of mental distress \u2013 particularly decreasing episodes irritability, aggression\/agitation, delusions and insomnia.<\/p>\n<p>Per the study&#8217;s conclusions, marijuana\u2019s \u201ctetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is safe and a promising treatment option\u201d for those suffering from Alzheimer\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full text of the study, \u201cSafety and Efficacy of Medical Cannabis Oil for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26757043#Safety%20and%20Efficacy%20of%20Medical%20Cannabis%20Oil%20for%20Behavioral%20and%20Psychological%20Symptoms%20of%20Dementia:%20An-Open%20Label,%20Add-On,%20Pilot%20Study.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to researchers at Tel-Aviv University, adding tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to the treatment of patients suffering with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease provides \u201ca potential treatment\u201d for the deadly degenerative neurological disease. Costing America a little over $200 billion in 2013, Alzheimer\u2019s Disease currently affects more than 5 million US citizens. As 1in 3 seniors face the unpleasant reality [&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[400,2421,9,1777,1,3,5053,1763,1779,18],"tags":[2978,2427,4345,5054,4331,4347,2622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}