Jared W. Young

And in fact, many of them report attempts and it helps them.

It helps slow them down.

It helps them think more clearly rather than racing through and trying to be so goal-oriented and high energy.

This kind of sets them back a bit.

And that's why they self-report.

But in science, we listen to self-reports, but we have to follow up with studies to try and understand it.

And knowing the fact that cannabis can cause cognitive problems for healthy participants...

We're like, well, if it's actually causing problems for people with bipolar disorder, we want to identify that too and give people warnings since cannabis is being legalized across the U.S., fully legal in Canada and other places.

So we wanted to understand it better.

Yeah, the Iowa gambling task is great.

It's a test.

It's called gambling task developed in Iowa.

Yeah, I know.

It's been around for about 30 years, actually.

And so it's a real world gambling style where we basically provide the participant with four options.

And each of those options either have high rewards or low rewards.

And so normally you would go for the higher rewards early on and try and maximize your output.

And if you go for the higher awards, though, you also get, at some point in time, you'll get high levels of punishment.

We'll take points away from you.

And if you go for the lower awards, the levels of punishment are much lower.