In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.
A major breakthrough in the treatment of morphine and heorin addiction was found. Scientists have discovered a way to stop the addiction of both heroin and morphine while still acting as a pain killer. This will potentially lead to a new drug that can prevent the addiction of morphine and heroin, both of which are highly addictive drugs. This is how the drug works: "The drug (+)-naloxone automatically shuts down the addiction. It shuts down the need to take opioids, it cuts out behaviours associated with addiction, and the neurochemistry in the brain changes -- dopamine, which is the chemical important for providing that sense of 'reward' from the drug, is no longer produced."
Next year the psychiatrist’s bible, the Diagnositic and Statistical Manual (DSM) will be revised into its 5th edition. It may have a dull moniker, but the DSM is more than a medical handbook. Central to its construction are the prevailing winds of societal attitudes – consider that as late as the 1973 homosexuality was still labeled a mental disorder.
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have conducted a study associatingovereating and cocaine addiction, but its conclusion is not the one you may expect.
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Between 2000 and 2009 in the United States, the annual rate of maternal opiate use increased nearly 5-fold, while diagnosis of the drug withdrawal syndrome among newborns, neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), increased almost 3-fold, accompanied by a substantial increase in hospital charges related to NAS, according to a study published online by JAMA. The study is being released early to coincide with its presentation at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting.
droppin_neuroscience's comment May 25, 2012 8:32 PM
This clip comes from "What the Bleep" which is uses entirely pseudo-scientific explanations of quantum physics to justify a self-help program. Dr. Joe Dispenza is a chiropractor, not a neuroscientist. Although some of his claims may be valid, he is far from qualified to talk on this subject.
Sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of a sad-sack Raymond Carver story: when female fruit flies reject their sexual advances, the males are driven to excessive alcohol consumption,...
Technology should improve quality of life, and the quality of the experience should guide the design, development, and evaluation of new technology. Ostensibly, with nearly one billion users worldwide and a $5 billion IPO for Facebook, social media meets its mark. But, at what cost?
Oxford University researchers believe there is a biological predisposition to drug addiction, following their examinations of the brains of drug addicts and their non-addicted brothers and sisters. The research indicates that both siblings showed the same abnormalities in brain biology, while over the course of their lives, one became a drug addict and the other did not. This suggests that the abnormalities in the brains of addicts are not caused by the drugs they ingest but are, instead, markers of a genetic predisposition toward addiction.
I think this explains a lot. Basically, they think drug addiction is biological so addiction is genetic, it doesn't really matter what the drug is an how addictive it can be. They make a point about nurture and nature, and want to gain a better understanding of the biological causes of addiction to tackle the problem.
he brains of Internet addicts function differently than non-addicts, says new research out of China. After scanning the brains of 17 people who admitted to having problems controlling their Internet use, researchers noticed irregularities in the addicts' white matter—the part of the brain that contains nerve fibers. "There was evidence of disruption to connections in nerve fibers linking brain areas involved in emotions, decision making, and self-control." Similar irregularities are common in the brains of alcoholics and drug addicts.
The media has been buzzing with the supposed news that ‘internet addiction’ has been added to the list of ‘official mental disorders’. This is nonsense, but it tells us something oddly disappointing about how the media handles tech scare scores.
Are you a master of technology in which you use it as a tool to enhance the quality of your life? Or are you addicted to your technology such that it actually hurts the quality of your life? There is a growing body of evidence indicating that overuse of technology has the same neurochemical effects—a shot of dopamine, our bodies’ way of rewarding us—as do addictions to alcohol, drugs, sex, and gambling.
Scientists from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine are probing neurons in the brain's reward center to learn why cocaine can be so addictive. A recent study reveals that the drug activates two different types of nerve cells. An imbalance in these cells may fuel cocaine addiction.
Dr. Mark Hyman presents ten ways you can cut food addiction "by regulating your hormones, by using food as medicine, by changing the information going in your body and upgrading your biological software."
Researchers from Norway have developed an instrument to measure Facebook addiction, the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. The scale is the first of its kind worldwide.
Some teenagers may be more inclined to experiment with drugs and alcohol, simply because their brains work differently, making them more impulsive, a new study shows.
One of the key take-home messages of Charles Duhigg’s new book The Power of Habit – Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business is that habits are pernicious little buggers. Over time, they become hardwired in the brain such that you can’t just will yourself to change them.
What role does your brain play in the pursuit and handling of money? Brian Knutson, a neuroscientist, studies the brain as it relates to money. Knutson uses special MRI images in his experiments while people are handling money. One thing he’s found is that when cash is offered to someone, dopamine is released in the nucleus accumbens, a part of the brain that is involved in reward and addiction.
“You can see what’s happening with the help of our new neuro-imaging tech, and it’s very clear that the reward is being very, very stimulated by video games. What’s clear is that when the rewards system is stimulated your efficiency of learning improves.”
A study of cocaine addicts finds that they have abnormalities in areas of the brain involved in self-control. And these abnormalities appear to predate any drug abuse.
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