“Neuroinflammation plays a major role in postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD).

Accumulated evidence indicates that cannabinoid receptor type 2 (CB2R) can mediate anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects in part by controlling microglial activity.

These findings indicate that CB2R may modulate the neuroinflammatory and cognitive impairment in a mouse model of orthopedic surgery, and the activation of CB2R may effectively ameliorate the hippocampal-dependent memory loss of mice in the early postoperative stage.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28724382

https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-017-0913-7