Potcast 173: Cannabis and Brain Injury Research
Potcast 173 features one of my favorite cannabis scientists to talk about brain injuries and the use of cannabis as a treatment tool. You last met Dr. Linda Klumpers during our discussion about tolerance breaks and cannabis during pregnancy on Potcast 155.
Today Linda and I discuss the basics of brain injury and the varying cognitive and emotional effects. We explore the pitfalls of diagnosing brain injury, what the existing research suggests about cannabis as a neuro-protectant, and the politics blocking researchers and folks like you and me from learning more. I also ask Linda about the long-term implications of head trauma on adult brains and the developing brains of kids. Not everything we talk about is comfortable but everyone deserves the insight to make informed decisions.
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‘After the Show’ Notes
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Linda Klumpers has a Ph.D. in cannabis pharmacology and has spent her career studying cannabinoids, the endocannabinoid system and their effects on humans. Linda is co-founder of Verdient Science specializing in cannabinoid science and research. She’s also the creator of Cannify, an online educational tool for making cannabis science approachable and useful for the individual consumer. Linda has 14-years of clinical research in cannabis and she’s co-authored ten peer-reviewed publications in the field of cannabinoids. Linda splits her time and research studies between her current home in Colorado, and where she was born and raised in the Netherlands.
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Cannabidiol for PTSD and TBI
As Dr. Klumpers and I discuss on the potcast, there are not nearly enough studies exploring TBI and CTE. Here’s the one upcoming study she mentioned.
The proposed study is an eight-week double-blind randomized placebo-controlled parallel dose-finding study of CBD's effects on PTSD symptoms and neurocognitive function in 120 patients with moderate to severe PTSD, 50% with comorbid mild-moderate TBI. There will be three arms, CBD 400 mg daily (n=40); CBD 600 mg daily (n=40) and placebo daily (n=40).