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Narcolepsy Drug Being Used to Improve Cognitive Performance Affects Brain Dopamine Activity
Mar 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A so-called "smart drug" popular with young people may carry more of an addiction risk than thought, a small government study suggests. Scans of 10 healthy men showed that the prescription drug Provigil ...
Natural Brain Substance Blocks Weight Gain in Mice
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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Mice with increased levels of a natural brain chemical don’t gain weight when fed a high-fat diet, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
New pill increases dreaming sleep
Feb 06, 2006 |
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A new sleeping pill that increases dreaming sleep improves memory capacity, according to the results of new research.
Researchers discover new mechanism for attentional control in the human brain
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A study by UC Davis researchers appearing in the journal Science reports the discovery of a new mechanism of attention in the human brain. Previous studies in animals implicated changes in the state of a portion of the br ...
Combating weight gain caused by antipsychotic treatments
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Antipsychotic drugs, such as olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal) and quetiapine (Seroquel), are commonly used to treat psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, but also bipolar disorder and even behavioral problems ...
'Wake-Up Pill' Under Study to Treat Patients with Bipolar Disorder
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 01, 2007 |
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A preliminary study of 85 patients with bipolar disorder shows that a drug used to treat patients with sleep disorders might also control the depressive symptoms associated with bipolar disorder. At least 44 percent of the ...
Potential cancer drug may offer new hope for asthma patients
Dec 09, 2009 |
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A drug being tested to treat cancer could also help patients suffering from asthma, research has suggested.
Sleep loss linked to increase in Alzheimer's plaques
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report online this week ...
Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise in Treating Kidney Disease
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United ...
New insights into mushroom-derived drug promising for cancer treatment
Dec 23, 2009 |
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A promising cancer drug, first discovered in a mushroom commonly used in Chinese medicine, could be made more effective thanks to researchers who have discovered how the drug works. The research is funded by the Biotechnology ...
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