She teaches the Master of Science in
Addiction Studies with VCU and King's College London.
Not exact matches
In one recent
study, Choi and several colleagues wrote that smartphone
addiction, like other impulse - control disorders, can «interfere
with school or work; decrease real - life social interaction; decrease academic ability; and cause relationship problems.»
Charles C. Hewitt summarizes his findings, in «A Personality
Study of Alcohol
Addiction,» as follows: «Alcohol addiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality d
Addiction,» as follows: «Alcohol
addiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality d
addiction, in the group
studied in this survey, seems to be associated,
with but few exceptions,
with deep personality disorders.
In
addiction to the standard items, Phaba can satisfy specific needs,
with customized packaging solutions,
studied in details.
Sugar
addiction is a specific type of food
addiction and has been shown to develop in animal
studies and to have similarities
with certain kinds of drug
addiction.
A
study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that brain chemicals linked to
addiction are in play
with a high - sugar diet, and a
study in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that a high - carb diet had lasting mood - elevation effects.
To
study the effects of possible Internet
addiction on the brain, researchers began
with the Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet
addiction.
People
with drug
addictions who started opioid abuse later in life use injections for their drugs, or increased their use of downers before starting drug treatment, are more likely to relapse from treatment than others, says a new
study from McMaster University.
As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine
Addiction, are
studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated
with the ability to quit.
With the results of the current
study in hand, Snyder has brokered a deal between that company and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for NIDA to test CGP3466B as a treatment for cocaine
addiction.
Eventually,
with all the replications [of the
study], people now recognize that one of the main pathologies in
addiction is in the prefrontal cortex.
In the future,
studies are aimed at using novel molecular approaches to selectively delete AMPK in specific brain regions associated
with nicotine dependence to better understand the functional role of this protein in
addiction.
As a graduate student at the University of Adelaide in Australia in the late 1990s, he helped
with studies in which people taking methadone to treat opioid
addiction tested their pain tolerance by dunking a forearm in ice water.
To find out, the team looked at several hundred human mu opiate genes, lumping together their own
studies of several dozen volunteers from pain or opiate
addiction clinics
with studies from other labs.
The
study looked at acute cocaine use
with only one injection a day, which is not considered a model of
addiction.
According to the
study, increased screen time was also associated
with higher body mass index, physical aggression and symptoms of video game
addiction.
«The fact that glutamine
addiction has mainly been investigated in cell culture systems may have overestimated the lethality of glutamine deprivation,» said Martin Eilers, University of Würzburg, who led the
study together
with Kempa.
«We are hoping the
study will encourage policymakers to consider the potential negative impact of removing
addiction treatment from the essential health benefits in Medicaid expansion plans and reversing the parity requirement to cover
addiction treatment services on par
with medical and surgical benefits,» she said.
An August 15 functional MRI
study in NeuroImage shows that in CG patients reminders of the deceased activate a brain area associated
with reward processing, pleasure and
addiction.
Dennis Miller, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts & Science and an investigator
with the Bond Life Sciences Center, and researchers in the Center for Translational Neuroscience at MU,
study therapies for drug
addiction and neurodegenerative disorders.
Having a parent
with an alcohol use disorder increases the risk for dating violence among teenagers, according to a
study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on
Addictions.
A new, team - based, primary care model is decreasing prescription opioid use among patients
with chronic pain by 40 percent, according to a new
study out of Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for
Addiction Medicine, which is published online ahead of print in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Nucleus accumbens Famous for its role in reward, pleasure and
addiction, this area showed less ability to change in a
study of rats
with symptoms of postpartum depression.
«Given the risks involved
with alcohol use, strengthening effective alcohol policies could help prevent homicides,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, the
study's lead author who is a physician in general internal medicine at BMC and researcher at BMC's Grayken Center for
Addiction Medicine.
The researchers» findings from this
study suggest that transitions from residential treatment are stressful, particularly as people balance competing priorities of meeting their basic needs
with managing their
addiction.
They have also done a pilot
study on psilocybin as a therapeutic option in individuals
with treatment - resistant depression, and are interested in possible roles for psychedelics in combating mental illnesses or
addiction.
To show this, Cox and colleagues developed a new method to assess
addiction - like behaviors
with meth, which could not be
studied with previous techniques because of the drug's long - acting effects.
Garet Lahvis was a 4th - year assistant professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, when his department chair told him that his
studies of social motivation and communication in mice — research
with implications for autism and drug
addiction — had moved too far from the department's focus on clinical plastic surgery and that the department would have to let him go.
A
study out of none other than the University of Cambridge found the same engagement of several brain areas — all involved in reward and motivation — in people
with compulsive sexual behavior as previously found in people struggling
with drug
addiction.
Low birth weight and preterm birth appear to increase the risk of schizophrenia among individuals
with a genetic condition called the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a new
study from the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows.
Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce
with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine
addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared
with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a
study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.
Researchers at Penn Medicine's Center for
Studies of
Addiction have now found that the drug baclofen, commonly used to prevent spasms in patients
with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders, can help block the impact of the brain's response to «unconscious» drug triggers well before conscious craving occurs.
Only one in four young adults and teens
with opioid use disorder (OUD) are receiving potentially life - saving medications for
addiction treatment, according to a new Boston Medical Center (BMC)
study published online in JAMA Pediatrics.
The researchers wrote that further
studies would be needed to assess whether dopamine - like drugs can reduce food cravings and
addiction, and whether such drugs could reduce body fat in Asians
with the genetic variation.
Steven Grant, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem»
with human
addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to
addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.
Hamer, an agnostic who emphasizes that his research is compatible
with belief in God, began his search in the late 1990s, when he assembled 1,000 subjects for a
study of the genetics of nicotine
addiction.
«Our findings are clinically relevant as they identify a novel
addiction target in rodents, along
with parallel supporting evidence from brain imaging
studies in human addicts,» explains Andon Placzek, lead author of the nicotine
study.
In a
study with 18 adults who had never smoked, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have demonstrated one of the earliest steps — nicotine «reinforcement» — in the process of
addiction, and shown that some people are far more vulnerable to nicotine
addiction than others.
TORONTO, March 30, 2017 — A common symptom of schizophrenia — not knowing that you're ill — can be temporarily alleviated using a balance test that stimulates part of the brain
with cold water, an exploratory
study at the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has shown.
The Pearson Center for Alcoholism &
Addiction Research has clinical research
studies for those
with alcohol abuse & alcoholism in San Diego, California.
He is currently completing the largest - ever genetic linkage
studies of schizophrenia, involving nearly 800 families, and heroin
addiction,
with more than 1,000 families.
Taylor launched the
study because she has seen patients
with addiction deteriorate
with liver failure for lack of Medicaid coverage for the medicine.
A new
study shows that public health and public safety agencies established local, collaborative programs in Massachusetts to connect overdose survivors and their personal networks
with addiction treatment, harm reduction, and other community support services following a non-fatal overdose.
And if that wasn't enough of an excuse to keep on
with your coffee
addiction, a new meta -
study suggests that it may also lower your risk of liver damage from overdoing it on the booze.
Struggling
with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders for most of my life, I thought
studying the mind would liberate me from my own suffering and
addictions.
A: There are
studies that have been done that show that in the usual person —
with no history, and no family history of
addiction — the typical mood response produced by opioids is dysphoria, not euphoria.
«It can be like psychotherapy sped up,» says psychiatrist Stephen Ross, MD, an
addiction expert at New York University who is leading a
study on psilocybin treatment in cancer patients
with severe anxiety.
This
study adds new information about the crossover between tanning and other
addictions, said Adinoff, who was not involved
with the new research.
The
study, published online March 16 in the journal
Addiction, highlights the need to direct more veterans» suicide prevention efforts to those
with drug or alcohol problems.
And other animal
studies have shown that sugar produces three symptoms consistent
with addiction: cravings, tolerance (so you want more and more), and withdrawal.