Cognitive performance recovery following marijuana cessation in NCAA division I athletes
Brandon A. Ally, Paul A. Mentele, Scott A. Wylie · 2026
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Brandon A Ally, Paul A Mentele, and Scott A Wylie measure in 2026 how much game-speed thinking college football players regain after a year away from cannabis. Eighteen NCAA Division I players who had tested positive for THC took a football-specific cognition battery, then retook it after twelve months of verified abstinence. The battery scores nine processes, from perception speed and tracking to impulse control, plus reaction speed and decision accuracy.
At baseline, the players reacted about a fifth slower than their own later scores, a delay near a tenth of a second in decision execution. Composite scores and six individual processes improved significantly after abstinence, and gains held after accounting for raw reaction speed. Chronic use, the authors conclude, taxes split-second decision-making in ways that partly reverse with a year clean.
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| CREATOR | Brandon A. Ally, Paul A. Mentele, Scott A. Wylie |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |