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- COPE ID:
- 62346-GO
- Course Title:
- Marijuana and Driving Your Retina and Brain
- Format:
- Live
- Category:
- General Optometry
- Total CE Hours:
- 1.00
- Description:
- Marijuana impacts cognition and sensory functions. The impairment is enough to create a serious hazard to driving. Marijuana causes dysfunction in retinal processing. Marijuana inhibits up to 75 of the visual functions in the lateral geniculate nucleus, the primary brain relay nucleus. This lecture will review the available research related the visual pathway and its relationship to driving and cannabis use.
- Expires:
- 04/29/2020
- Instructor:
- Denise Valenti, O.D.