QBI Neuroscience Seminar : Cannabis: Potential and Risks. A scientific analysis
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 04 September 2019 - Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Time:
- 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Room:
- Auditorium, room 701, QBI Building 79
- UQ Location:
- Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)
- URL:
- https://qbi.uq.edu.au/events
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Charmaine Paiva
- Phone:
- 66402
- Email:
- m.paiva@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Queensland Brain Institute
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Speaker: Dr Eva Hoch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Title: Cannabis: Potential and Risks. A scientific analysis
Abstract: Internationally, there is a heated cannabis debate ongoing. What are the risks of recreational cannabis use? How effective and tolerable is cannabis as medicine? To find answers to these questions, a group of 30 German cannabis experts conducted a systematic review of the global scientific literature published in the past decade. As head of the „Cannabis Research and Treatment Group“ Dr Hoch was steering this project on behalf of the German Government. In her talk, Dr Hoch will present the principal findings of the „Cannabis Report“, which was published in January 2019.
Coming of Age: A symposium on cannabis and the brain
When: 4 September 2019 11am – 4pm
About: To mark the tenth anniversary of the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research (CYSAR), CYSAR and QBI present a series of talks on two important topics that show the intersections between the brain sciences and the study of youth substance use: (1) the implications of the legalisation of cannabis in Canada, Uruguay and the USA for the mental health and cognitive development of young people; and (2) the reasons for and responses to the co-occurrence of alcohol and other drug use and serious mental disorders in young people and their development toward adulthood. Speakers will include
Invited speakers:
Dr Eva Hoch, LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
Professor Wayne Hall , UQ CYSAR
Professor John McGrath, UQ QBI
Dr Valentina Lorenzetti, AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Professor Leanne Hides , UQ PSYCHOLOGY, CYSAR, LIVES LIVED WELL
The talks will be followed by a panel discussion. For more details and to register, please visit qbi.uq.edu.au\CYSAR
There is no cost to register but please register for catering purposes if you are attending the whole symposium, from 11am-4pm.
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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