Sentences with phrase «on addiction studies»

most recent workshop on mindfulness - based stress reduction for co-occurring disorders was taught this Summer at The New England Institute on Addiction Studies, Best Practices Conference in New Hampshire.

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His academic studies were suffering due to his addictions, so he took on extra classes at a local college.

Two studies, for example, are conclusive on the point that behind the addiction there is an emotionally warped personality.

The study, conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, confirmed what common sense has always strongly suggested, which is that fathers make a huge difference in the lives of kids.

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.

The Senate panel studying the issue of heroin and opioid addiction on Monday announced another round of public forums on the topic.

«We are hopeful that the State will look favorably on the County's good faith allocation of money to undertake the two studies, as well as the potentially significant impacts of the new re-entry initiative, the new rehab beds at Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services, and other local alternatives - to - incarceration.»

The use of alcohol is often believed to be linked to college sexual assaults, but a study issued by the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions reveals new findings.

Suffolk County lawmakers on Long Island are studying whether to form an anti-opioid commission to battle addictions problems.

«It appears the kids who are heavily into drinking energy drinks are more likely to be the ones who are inclined toward taking risks,» Kathleen Miller, an addiction researcher who led a 2008 study on the subject, told The New York Times.

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

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

To study the effects of possible Internet addiction on the brain, researchers began with the Young Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet addiction.

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.

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.

The findings can prompt development of innovative therapies and new clinical studies that capitalize on the mechanisms of MAPK inhibitor addiction.

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.

Based on their results and evidence from other studies on addiction and the hippocampus, the authors suggest an intriguing explanation for addiction: newborn neurons in the hippocampus inhibit the release of dopamine, one of the major chemical messengers that act as a reward signal.

Thus this study suggests a new and intriguing role for newborn neurons in the hippocampus, lighting the way for future studies on addiction.

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.

This study shows the positive impact they've had on helping people give up the deadly addiction.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

«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.

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.

The results have just been published in the International journal Addiction Research and Theory, and are one of several studies from Aarhus University focusing on medical doctors» consumption of substances and substance use 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.

«By providing team - based support for primary care providers and patients, the TOPCARE model ensures that patients are closely monitored,» said Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH, a primary care internist and addiction expert at BMC's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine, who served as first author and co-principal investigator on taddiction expert at BMC's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine, who served as first author and co-principal investigator on tAddiction Medicine, who served as first author and co-principal investigator on the study.

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.

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

The reward center of the brain is much more attuned to the pleasurable effects of alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated, an effect that may underlie the development of addiction in women, according to a study on mice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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.

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recently conducted a study on heroin addiction and demonstrated that the stress hormone cortisol can reduce addictive cravings.

«Studies on post-traumatic stress disorder have shown traumatic events can have profound influences on receptors in this region of the brain, perhaps rendering soldiers more prone to addiction.

«Addiction is a life - long affliction manifested by episodes of relapse, despite prolonged abstinence,» says Amy Gancarz, PhD, lead author of the study, which was published on June 1 in an Advance Online Publication in Nature Neuroscience.

A new study at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found a clinically useful way to predict who won't develop Alzheimer's disease, based on patients» awareness of their memory problems.

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.

Raised for dozens of generations in the lab of senior author Huda Akil, Ph.D., at the U-M Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute under carefully controlled conditions, the two breeds act as a way to study the effects of genetic and inherited traits on addiction - related behaviors.

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.

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.

«This study represents an important next step in understanding and treating problem drinking,» says Henry R. Kranzler, MD, professor of Psychiatry, director of Penn's Center for Studies of Addiction and lead author on the study.

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

The Behavioral Genetics of Addiction Laboratory (PI information: http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/palmer-rohan.html) located in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, is looking for self - motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellows to work on statistical genetics and epidemiological studies of substance use, psychopathology, and their relation to cognitive functioning.

Another study showed promising results on the benefits of marijuana in curbing relapse symptoms of alcohol and cocaine addiction.

I worked at Virginia Commonwealth University for more than 14 years, focusing on genetic studies of schizophrenia and smoking addiction.

Bjornsdottir G Psychometric properties of the Icelandic NEO-FFI in a general population sample compared to a sample recruited for a study on the genetics of addiction.

On Jan. 26, 2018, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced that the agency, after an internal investigation, had permanently ended a nicotine addiction study in which four squirrel monkeys had died.

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.

«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.