This scientist is testing a marijuana ingredient as a way to prevent relapse. It’s a daunting task

NEW YORK — When she started collecting brains, neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd’s peers wondered what she could possibly be thinking.

Studying animals made way more sense as a way to trace how chronic drug use changes the brain, they thought — after all, how was Hurd going to parse the long-term effects from the trauma of the overdoses that killed the brain donors?

She waved her colleagues off. She wanted to know what was happening in human brains, not in mice.

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