r/science • u/chrisdh79 • Oct 09 '24

Neuroscience Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago | A workout or restless night from two weeks ago could still be affecting you—positively or negatively—today.

https://www.newsweek.com/brain-changes-neuroscience-exercise-sleep-health-two-weeks-1965107
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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24

Firstly, unless CTE stands for something else, all I can find is Chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Secondly I cannot find any link between cannabis and CTE, other than the usual sorts of article which look at the effects of CBD and THC on someone who already has CTE.

Thirdly, according to Google, CTE is (in short) caused by blows (trauma) to the head.

Edit. The guy is clearly joking. Just because I state some facts here in my comment doesn't mean I do not understand the joke. I'm adding clarification to what CTE actually is. Most people do not live in a country where the national sport relies heavily on traumatic brain Injury.

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u/Lushkush69 Oct 09 '24

Maybe they coughed so hard on a big dab they passed out and hit their head HARD. Know a few stoners who have done that

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u/nicupinhere Oct 09 '24

You have to add repeatedly…

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u/RobertPulson Oct 09 '24

If you hit the Bong hard enough eventually the Bong starts to hit you - anonymous

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u/c3pee1 Oct 09 '24

That's Post Bongmatic Trauma (PBT) though and studies have shown that a good dose of tacos/burrito relieves any effects

Source - Pot Doc

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u/bonersmakebabies Oct 09 '24

See, this is the research we need to invest more in. Thx Pot Doc

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u/NotSureNotRobot Oct 09 '24

I got PBT watching TPB

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u/Yosonimbored Oct 09 '24

Especially if you hit it while it’s clogged

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u/s_p_oop15-ue Oct 09 '24

If it ain’t hittin back you ain’t hittin it hard enough -marijuana enthusiast 

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u/Background-Wall-1054 Oct 09 '24

First you drink from the bottle... then the bottle drinks from you.

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u/Jhaos Oct 09 '24

You're not wrong. I did this to myself recently and now I've got two broken teeth and a broken nose from eating the bathroom sink.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6598785/

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u/readitmoderator Oct 09 '24

Yes cte is repeated blows to the head usually in football players i think dude was just trolling

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman Oct 09 '24

Maybe they signed up to play football while they were high and therefore blame all football-related injuries to the state of mind they were in when they signed up (or two weeks before as shown in the linked study).

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u/readitmoderator Oct 09 '24

yo ur profile pic makes this statement so true

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

I assume they were trolling.

I added some clarification because non-Americans do not know what CTE is.

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u/TheUserDifferent Oct 09 '24

They were making a joke...

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

Yea. I figured after some deductive work.

Not everyone will understand what random 3 letter abbreviations stand for on the Internet.

If I had known what CTE was to begin with I might have understood that initially too.

Unfortunately, I live in a country where our national sport doesn't involve repeated traumatic brain Injury....

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u/TheUserDifferent Oct 09 '24

Yes, quite unfortunate =)

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u/TheBirminghamBear Oct 09 '24

Mate I believe he's making a joke because both things, traumatic brain injury and smoking huge amounts of weed, are known for making people a little cognitively dim.

I believe OP is just using colorful metaphorical language to explain to use how much he has impaired his cognitive function by smoking weed.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

I know he is making a joke.

I figured that out after looking up what CTE was.

Turns out most people do not know what CTE is.

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u/KingMonkOfNarnia Oct 09 '24

He was using CTE as a metaphor for brain damage lololol

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u/xTRYPTAMINEx Oct 09 '24

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Blunt force trauma repeatedly. You're welcome.

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u/trashacc0unt Oct 09 '24

I'm sure it changes the brain just not in such a destructive manner

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u/PassiveMenis88M Oct 09 '24

Most people do not live in a country where the national sport relies heavily on traumatic brain Injury

If their national sport is soccer then yes they do. CTE is caused by repeated blows to the head, much like you get from heading the ball.