Sentences with phrase «effects of opioids like»
She also wanted to avoid the side effects of opioids like morphine.
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Interest sparked with the discovery of endorphins — morphine - like molecules, often called opioids, that the body produces during exercise and that have painkilling or euphoric effects on the brain.
Ablation of kappa - opioid receptors from brain dopamine neurons has anxiolytic - like effects and enhances cocaine - induced plasticity.
They have demonstrated that female rats are less sensitive than males to the depressive - like effects of kappa - opioid receptor activation.
Sex differences in sensitivity to the depressive - like effects of the kappa opioid receptor agonist U-50488 in rats.
Second, sugar has the ability to increase pleasure - yielding opioids in the brain, similar to morphine and heroin, making one's sugar cravings often too strong to ignore.29 Julia Ross tells us in The Diet Cure, «For some of us, certain foods, particularly ones that are sweet and starchy, can have a drug - like effect, altering our brains» mood chemistry and fooling us into a false calm, or a temporary energy surge.