News tagged with cocaine abusers
Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When asked to inhibit their response to a "cocaine-cues" video, active cocaine abusers were, on average, able to suppress activity in brain regions linked to drug craving, according to a new ...
Cocaine Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Addiction
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine resulted in a substantial reduction in cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial supported by the National Institute on Drug ...
Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
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'Erasing' drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Erasing' drug-associated memories may prevent recovering drug abusers from relapsing, researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered.
Cocaine exposure during pregnancy leads to impulsivity in male, not female, monkeys
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Adult male monkeys exposed to cocaine while in the womb have poor impulse control and may be more vulnerable to drug abuse than female monkeys, even a decade or more after the exposure, according to a new study by researchers ...
Injections of licorice ingredient show promise as treatment for cocaine addiction
Feb 20, 2009 |
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An ingredient in licorice shows promise as an antidote for the toxic effects of cocaine abuse, including deadly overdoses of the highly addictive drug, researchers in Korea and Pennsylvania are reporting. Their study is in ...
Research indicates that a common heart drug may reduce cocaine cravings
Feb 27, 2008 |
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have found that diltiazem, a drug used in the treatment of high blood pressure, reduces cocaine cravings in a rat model. These findings will ...
Potential new drug for cocaine addiction and overdose
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Chemists are reporting development of what they term the most powerful substance ever discovered for eliminating cocaine from the body, an advance that could lead to the world's first effective medicine for ...
Cocaine-linked genes enhance behavioral effects of addiction
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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New research sheds light on how cocaine regulates gene expression in a crucial reward region of the brain to elicit long-lasting changes in behavior. The study, published by Cell Press in the May 14th issue of the journal ...
Cocaine and heroin harm placenta
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Cocaine and heroin increase permeability of the placenta. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology have shown that exposure to the drugs causes an increase in the ...
Study shows how cocaine impairs fetal brain development
Jun 10, 2008 |
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Exposure of the developing brain to cocaine can cause neurological and behavioral abnormalities in babies born to mothers who use the drug during pregnancy. In a study research published in this week's PLoS Medicine, Chun-T ...
Cocaine: Perceived as a reward by the brain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 19, 2009 |
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Cocaine is one of the oldest drugs known to humans, and its abuse has become widespread since the end of the 19th century. At the same time, we know rather little about its effects on the human brain or the mechanisms that ...
Ritalin may cause changes in the brain’s reward areas
Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A common treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, prescribed millions of times a year, may change the brain in the same ways that cocaine does, a new study in mice suggests. Research from Rockefeller ...
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