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Computer Model Shows Changes in Brain Mechanisms for Cocaine Addicts
About 2 million Americans currently use cocaine for its temporary side-effects of euphoria, which have contributed to making it one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in the country. Co...
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Read moreDeaths from Unintentional Injuries Increase for Many Groups
Their analysis found that white women between 45 and 64 years old experienced a 230 percent increase in the rate of poisoning mortality over the study period. White men in this age group experienced a...
Health and Medicine | Read moreWastewater used to map illicit drug use
Their findings provide a one-day snapshot of drug excretion that can be used to better understand patterns of drug use in multiple municipalities over time. Municipal water treatment facilities across...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearchers Find New Actions of Neurochemicals
Now MIT researchers have found novel C. elegans neurochemical receptors, the discovery of which could lead to new therapeutic targets for psychiatric disorders if similar receptors are found in humans...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew gene discovery links obesity to the brain
A variation in a gene that is active in the central nervous system is associated with increased risk for obesity, according to an international study in which Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Ye...
Life Sciences | Read moreYerkes Researchers Use Eye Tracking to Detect Mild Dementia In Humans
The researchers hope the advanced technology will be helpful in predicting the onset of Alzheimer's disease. The test, which is featured in the current online issue of The American Journal of Alz...
Health and Medicine | Read moreResearchers discover gene variant associated with cocaine dependence, cocaine induced paranoia
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have discovered that variants in the á-endoman...
Life Sciences | Read moreTaurine: Key to the visual toxicity of an anti-epileptic drug for children?
Serge Picaud, head of research at Inserm, and his colleagues of the Institut de la Vision have just discovered the origin of this secondary effect and have proposed strategies for limiting it....
Health and Medicine | Read moreResearchers Discover Brain's Memory 'Buffer' in Single Cells
The study, available online and appearing in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify the specific signal that establishes nonpermanent cellular memory and reveals how the b...
Life Sciences | Read moreThe rewards of courtship
Rewarding stimuli and addictive drugs both enhance the activity of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain. Drugs of abuse, such as cocaine and amphetamine, can also produce ...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew therapeutic properties of N-acetyl-L-cysteine discovered
The team headed by Luis González Guijarro, biochemistry and molecular biology professor at the UAH, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical firm Farmasierra S.L., has developed a pilot study of the e...
Life Sciences | Read moreFluorescent Grooves
In order to arrest a culprit, police look for fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Magnetic powder is applied to the surfaces of objects with a magnetic brush to make these latent fingerpri...
Life Sciences | Read moreFast and effective testing for drugs of abuse: the Dräger DrugTest 5000
The Dräger DrugTest 5000 is capable of detecting even minute traces of addictive drugs in saliva within minutes. This means it can provide a quick check on whether a patient has consumed drugs of abus...
Medical Engineering | Read moreHope for treating relapse to methamphetamine abuse
A new study at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory suggests that vigabatrin (a.k.a. gamma vinyl-GABA, or GVG) blocks drug-seeking behavior in animals previously t...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreStudy finds abnormalities in cerebral cortex of cocaine addicts
A brain imaging study carried out at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reveals abnormalities in the cortex – the outer surface of the brain – of cocaine addicts that appear to correlate with dysfun...
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