Sentences with phrase «drug addiction study»

Like Kroener's research on anxiety, the drug addiction study sought to extinguish memories.

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Have you ever heard of any actual medical research studies that link pacifier use in babies under 3 to drug addiction later in life?

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.

Joseph Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, said his group's study concluded that many dads are essentially AWOL when it comes to keeping their children drug free.

Many studies show that once your child starts using a drugs, genetic factors may influence whether they develop an addiction.

A study commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America — the trade organization representing the drug industry — warns that Cuomo's plan will drive up health care costs, harm New York consumers and could worsen the addiction crisis.

A 2012 study published by the Mayo Clinic found that users of marijuana have a smaller chance of developing an addiction to the drug than users of alcohol or tobacco.

He has previously suggested marijuana is a «gateway drug» — a claim disputed by those who have studied drug policy and addiction.

Today's report, which will be followed up by a full study published next summer, acknowledges the role poverty, bad housing, unemployment, debt and drug and alcohol addiction play in social breakdown, but argues families are also vital.

Boyle, a neuroscientist and chief of the science policy branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has studied the biological causes of 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.

A dozen human studies of MDMA, LSD, a powerful African drug called ibogaine and psilocybin, from so - called «magic mushrooms,» are now under way, testing the once - stigmatized drugs as treatments for not only PTSD, but also cluster headaches and addiction, as well as anxiety and depression in cancer patients.

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman, an author on the study from University of Malaya, Malaysia, said: «In recent years, compulsory drug detention centres in Malaysia and across Asia have come under scrutiny and question over their lack of effectiveness in treating addiction and their human rights transgressions.

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.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Michele Noonan, a University of Texas neuroscience graduate student in the lab of Amelia Eisch, shows that a lack of neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult rat can actually cause drug addiction.

During imaging studies probing the causes of addiction, the insula often was activated when drug abusers were shown movies of others taking drugs or shown pictures of cocaine, heroin or nicotine.

Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like drug addiction and memory formation.

A study in the journal Addiction shows that a viable system for measuring the consumption of illegal drugs in various communities is to analyze samples of untreated wastewater — which contains the leftovers.

While many people recognize addiction is a mental illness, they fail to recognize that a drug addiction is a chronic disease, said Charles O'Brien, the vice-chair of psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Studies in Addiction at the University of Pennaddiction is a mental illness, they fail to recognize that a drug addiction is a chronic disease, said Charles O'Brien, the vice-chair of psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Studies in Addiction at the University of Pennaddiction is a chronic disease, said Charles O'Brien, the vice-chair of psychiatry and founding director of the Center for Studies in Addiction at the University of PennAddiction at the University of Pennsylvania.

The brain - on - a-chip could be useful for studying any number of neurological and psychiatric diseases, including drug addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury.

Jacqueline Lloyd, a deputy branch chief at NIH's National Institute of Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland, says Young's study is one of 11 funded under a program aimed at using social media to understand and address substance use and addiction.

«These studies highlight the overlap between pathological gambling and drug addiction.

It represents the first large scale study of individuals seeking treatment for gambling problems in the UK, at a time when this disorder is being re-classified alongside drug addiction as the first «behavioural 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.

Alcohol addiction causes almost 3.8 per cent of deaths worldwide but a study led by QUT researchers offers new hope in the form of a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (Fdrug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDrug Administration (FDA).

Co-author Professor John Strang, Head of the National Addiction Centre at King's College London, said: «This study is the first to assess the international evidence - base on take - home naloxone, and we found that the antidote successfully reversed overdose in the large majority of cases where the drug was administered.

In order for early intervention of addiction to be possible, the study has deemed it essential to identify the biomarkers which may make a person more vulnerable to drug addiction, due to these particular areas of the brain affecting decision making and impulsivity.

«While the association between chronic pain and drug addiction has been observed in prior studies, this study goes one step further to quantify how many of these patients are using these substances specifically to treat chronic pain.

A new study now suggests that hijacking another natural system in the brain may help overcome drug 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.

«Although our study is in rodents, the same receptors have been shown to impact human stress and drug addiction.

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.

Dr. Britt's studies have helped reveal circuits that are responsible for habitual behavior, which could be suitable targets for pharmacotherapies designed to treat drug addiction.

Results from this study support previous findings that beliefs can alter a drug's effects on craving, providing insight into possible avenues for novel methods of addiction treatments.

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.

The two breeds allow scientists to study the impact of drug use and addiction on gene expression and epigenetics in the nucleus accumbens — the brain's «pleasure center,» where response to drugs like cocaine occurs.

Challenging the idea that addiction is hardwired in the brain, a new UC Berkeley study of mice suggests that even a short time spent in a stimulating learning environment can rewire the brain's reward system and buffer it against drug dependence.

That, in turn, can lead to self - destructive behavior — including illness, drug addiction, and suicide, according to a few studies.

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 receptDrug 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 receptdrug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptdrug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.

Physician Gene - Jack Wang of Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied the brains of overeaters since 1999, when he and colleague Nora Volkow originally observed that obesity and drug addiction alter the same brain circuits.

The study, reported in today's Science, suggests a new avenue for studying drug addiction.

A new study looks at the question of whether people get caught in the cycle of overeating and drug addiction because their brain reward centers are over-active, causing them to experience greater cravings for food or drugs.

A new study sheds light on the significance of a potential genetic risk factor for drug addiction and possibly other neuropsychiatric disorders.

Three medicines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help people break their addiction to nicotine, but smoking cessation rates remain low — at about 15 percent — even though some studies say up to 70 percent of smokers want to quit.

She has over 10 years of experience in the research field in various areas including clinical trials studies, neuroimaging studies, drug addiction, and developmental psychology.

Studies show it can increase the risk of addiction, and also trigger violence, other drug use, alcohol abuse, and sexual risk - taking.

Dr. Lukas» group studies the brain reward systems involved in the addiction process and is developing alternative treatments for drug and alcohol abuse.