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Britain bans 'legal high' drugs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Britain banned several drugs known as "legal highs" Wednesday amid mounting public concern about their health risks.


Amphetamine use in adolescence may impair adult working memory

Amphetamine use in adolescence may impair adult working memory

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rats exposed to high doses of amphetamines at an age that corresponds to the later years of human adolescence display significant memory deficits as adults - long after the exposure ends, researchers report.


Drug-proof zebrafish reveal secrets of addiction

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The effects of amphetamines on gene expression in zebrafish have been uncovered. This new study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, provides clues to the genetics that underlie susceptibility to add ...


Phasic firing of dopamine neurons is key to brain's prediction of rewards

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers are one step closer to understanding the neurobiology that allows people to successfully learn motivated behaviors by associating environmental cues with rewarding outcomes, according to a study published yesterday ...





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Glutamate can play key role in drug impact on brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Addiction disorders of various kinds are a major health and social problem, and our knowledge of how the brain’s reward system functions needs to be enhanced. Uppsala researchers now shows an unexpected effect ...


Teen marijuana use tilts up, while some drugs decline in use

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created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marijuana use among American adolescents has increased gradually over the past two years (three years among 12th-graders) following years of declining use, according to the latest Monitoring the Future study, ...


The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments

The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fruit flies may seem like unlikely heroes in the battle against drug abuse, but new research suggests that these insects — already used to study dozens of human disease — could claim that role. Scientists ...


Local health investigation sheds light on gastroschisis birth defect

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Results of an investigation conducted by University of Nevada, Reno researchers, public health officials and area physicians published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, indicate that Washoe County ...


Increase in 'academic doping' could spark routine urine tests for exam students

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

The increasing use of smart drugs or "nootropics," to boost academic performance, could mean that exam students will face routine doping tests in future, suggests an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics.


UN reports decline in cultivation of some drugs

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created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- In its annual report on world drug use, the United Nations concludes that global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are holding steady or in decline.


Chinese slimming capsules

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taking herbal food supplements is certainly not free of risk. Since 2005, the poison emergency centers in the German cities of Freiburg and Göttingen have registered a total of 17 patients with health problems after taking ...


Narcolepsy Drug Being Used to Improve Cognitive Performance Affects Brain Dopamine Activity

Narcolepsy Drug Being Used to Improve Cognitive Performance Affects Brain Dopamine Activity

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created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Preliminary research in healthy men suggests that the narcolepsy drug modafinil, increasingly being used to enhance cognitive abilities, affects the activity of dopamine in the brain in a way that may create ...


Caution: Lose more than weight with imported diet pills

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created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Americans who use illegal diet pills from South America are taking amphetamines without knowing it and seriously risking both their health and their jobs. Physicians need to be made aware of the range of serious side effects ...


Risk takers, drug abusers driven by decreased ability to process dopamine

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created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from Vanderbilt finds that these ...



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