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Researchers develop new method to study gambling addictions
Jun 17, 2009 |
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UBC researchers have created the world's first animal laboratory experiment to successfully model human gambling. The advance will help scientists develop and test new treatments for gambling addictions, a devastating condition ...
Online gambling a bad bet for America, U. of I. expert says
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May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gambling addictions would soar and an already-sputtering economy could sink into ruin if Congress overturns a decades-old ban on Internet gambling, a University of Illinois professor and national ...
Treating addiction by eliminating drug-associated memories
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 23, 2009 |
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New Study to Examine Relationship between Anger and Alcohol Abuse
Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research suggests that alcoholics are more likely to experience emotions such as annoyances, frustrations and anger compared to non-alcoholics.
Virtual world therapeautic for addicts: study shows
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Patients in therapy to overcome addictions have a new arena to test their coping skills—the virtual world. A new study by University of Houston Associate Professor Patrick Bordnick found that a virtual reality ...
Discovery may provide new treatments for alcohol dependence
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered a new brain mechanism involved in alcohol addiction involving the stomach hormone ghrelin. When ghrelin's actions in the brain are ...
Key Brain Receptors Linked To Learning and Memory Decrease with Age
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying cognitive decline that accompanies aging have been interested in nicotinic receptors, part of a key neural pathway that not only enhances learning and memory skills but ...
Adolescents' gambling a part of a cluster of problem behaviors
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten percent of young adolescent boys -- or one in 10 -- exhibit a symptom of conduct disorder as well as a symptom of risky or problem gambling, according to new research findings from the University at Buffalo's ...
Nicotinic receptors may be important targets for treatment of multiple addictions
Aug 15, 2007 |
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For years, scientists have known that some people are biologically more susceptible to drug addiction than others, but they have only been able to speculate why.
New insight into addictive behavior offers treatment hope
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Addictive behaviour is determined by conscious, rapid thought processes, not necessarily by the content of visual stimuli as previously thought according to research funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research ...
Addiction: Insights from Parkinson's disease
Feb 25, 2009 |
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A new comprehensive review by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University and the University of Cambridge, England provides vital insights into the neurological basis of addiction by investigating ...
Health food supplement may curb addiction of pathological gamblers
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 11, 2007 |
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University of Minnesota researchers have discovered that a common amino acid, available as a health food supplement, may help curb pathological gamblers’ addiction.
Researchers find that memory storage molecule preserves complex memories
Dec 23, 2008 |
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The brain acts as a computer to both store information and process that information. In a computer, separate devices perform these roles; while a hard disk stores information, the central processing unit (CPU) does the processing. ...
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