In my work with clients, I am informed by the latest
research on addiction and the brain.
Currently, Matthew conducts
research on addiction treatment at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine.
Please also share with others with an interest in
research on addiction.
Neuroscience
research on addiction has largely focused on the role of reward centers in the brain, and increasingly, the role of the hippocampus.
Not exact matches
Only a small percentage of marijuana users, according to recent
research, move
on to heroin
addiction.
The latest
research on women with
addictions, particularly
on those who are chemically dependent, shows that these women's concerns and needs differ from those of male addicts.
I share the latest
research on sugar
addiction, cravings, and habit change in a format that's easy to swallow.
Michel Odent, in his review of
research on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3 Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the
research on the «primal period «(the time between conception and the first birthday), concludes that interference or dysfunction at this time affects the development of our capacity to love, which is particularly vulnerable around the time of birth, being connected hormonally to the oxytocin system.3
Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the
Research by Jacobsen4 5 and Raine6 among others, suggests that contemporary tragedies such as suicide, drug
addiction and violent criminality may be linked to problems in the perinatal period such as exposure to drugs, birth complications and separation or rejection from the mother.
But when it comes down to how the
addiction started,
Research Institute Director Don Levy says New Yorkers are divided
on who is to blame.
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.
Drs. Jentsch, London, and Ringach are researchers at UCLA who used non-human primates in their
research on schizophrenia,
addiction, and visual processing.
The National Institute
on Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting
research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications already available to treat opioid
addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid
addictions.
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.
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.
Volkow was named the best medical student of her class in 1981 at the National University of Mexico, and she went
on to break new ground in the field of
addiction research.
As the head of the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, which spent more than $ 664 million
on research grants in fiscal year 2014, how have you tried to improve
addiction treatment?
«It really now calls upon the
research field to start focusing
on this area,» he says, «to look at drug effects in this area, to look at the types of changes that go
on during
addiction in this area, to understand what the basic function of this area is and why it would be important in this kind of context.»
Columbia University psychiatrist Carl Erik Fisher sizes up
research on «behavioral
addictions,» adding insights from his clinical practice.
But while
research generally supports the effectiveness of psychosocial treatments, there are major gaps in the evidence
on their use in conjunction with medications, according to a review and update in the January / February Journal of
Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of
Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
Researchers, Dr Abi Rose and Dr Andy Jones, from the University's
Addiction Research Team conducted a meta - analysis
on all 12 clinical trials comparing baclofen with placebo
on at least one of the described drinking outcomes, craving, anxiety, or depression.
At least $ 500 million in new funds will be targeted to
research on opioid
addiction.
Their
research targets treatments for methamphetamine abuse and has focused
on the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in drug
addiction.
Signatories of the letter include David King and Robert May, former government chief scientific advisers; Colin Blakemore, a member of the U.K. Drug Policy Commission and former director of the Medical
Research Council; and Gabriel Horn, chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences Working Group
on Brain Science,
Addiction and Drugs.
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.
Yavin Shaham, a neurobiologist at the National Institute
on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Md., said in a press statement that the new work is an example of «basic
research that can be readily translated to the treatment of cocaine
addiction in humans.»
Like Kroener's
research on anxiety, the drug
addiction study sought to extinguish memories.
The goal is to determine whether «the inhibitory effect of cortisol
on addictive cravings might also have positive implications for nicotine, alcohol or gambling
addiction,» says Dominique de Quervain, Director of the
research platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Basel.
In a follow -
on project to be conducted in collaboration with MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology and Center for
Addiction Research and Science (AddRess) and, in particular, with drug and dopamine expert Harald Sitte, amongst others, the objective is now to find out whether, and, if so, how, activation of DeltaFosB can be prevented and how this highly promising starting point can be used to treat the onset of addictive behaviour.
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.
The
research, a collaboration between the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Chung - Ang University in South Korea, was published online in
Addiction Biology
on Dec. 21, 2015.
NIDA International Program: promoting diplomacy and
addiction research Steven Gust National Institute
on Drug Abuse, NIH
For example, Howard Shaffer, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and director of the division
on addiction at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and his co-workers have been conducting
research with an online gambling site called bwin.party Digital Entertainment.
«Much more
research is needed in order for us to more fully understand the underlying mechanism and specific role of the insular cortex, but is clear that something is going
on in this part of the brain that is influencing
addiction,» said Abdolahi.
Yet two decades of
research have convinced him that excessive behaviour can cross the line and become every bit as real an
addiction as being physically dependent
on a drug.
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.
«There has been plenty of
research on how the interaction of certain personality traits affects
addiction to things like alcohol and drugs,» said Binghamton University School of Management assistant professor of information systems Isaac Vaghefi.
Vaghefi hopes that based
on this
research, people will look at the «whole picture» when it comes to how personality traits impact social networking
addiction.
Research on nicotine's molecular targets in the brain has provided new insight into the mechanism of nicotine
addiction.
New
research from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions that explored the potential side effects of the stimulant drug Ritalin on those without ADHD showed changes in brain chemistry associated with risk - taking behavior, sleep disruption and other undesirable
research from the University at Buffalo
Research Institute on Addictions that explored the potential side effects of the stimulant drug Ritalin on those without ADHD showed changes in brain chemistry associated with risk - taking behavior, sleep disruption and other undesirable
Research Institute
on Addictions that explored the potential side effects of the stimulant drug Ritalin
on those without ADHD showed changes in brain chemistry associated with risk - taking behavior, sleep disruption and other undesirable effects.
Even as current
research demonstrates that hospitalized patients» exposure to opioids has contributed to the nationwide
addiction epidemic, there is little guidance
on the safe prescribing of these pain killers in the inpatient, non-operative setting.
«Outcomes were not substantially improved by patient matching,» says Gerard J. Connors of the New York State
Research Institute
on Addictions.
Research in the Taffe Laboratory focuses
on determining how physical exercise and anti-drug vaccination strategies may be used at different points in the substance
addiction arc to prevent or ameliorate negative effects
on health.
These instruments have formed the foundation for the biochemistry cores of two NIH Centers of Excellence (the NIAAA - funded TSRI Alcohol
Research Center and the National Institute
on Drug Abuse [NIDA]- funded Scripps Center for Cannabis
Addiction Neurobiology) and have directly supported other ongoing projects at TSRI (the Methamphetamine NeuroAIDS
Research Program, NIDA - funded projects
on immunopharmacotherapy [Taffe and Janda laboratories], a project with Dr. Steve Poceta to measure human lumbar cerebrospinal fluid in Parkinson's patients with Restless Leg Syndrome, and a U.S. Army grant), as well as assisting non-TSRI collaborators from The Sanford - Burnham Institute, The Salk Institute, and elsewhere.
The goals of the
research areas are to understand the neurobiological mechanisms underlying drug abuse and
addiction, with special emphasis
on changes that occur during chronic drug use, withdrawal and relapse.
Traditionally,
research into the neurobiological substrate of drug
addiction has focused
on the mesolimbic dopamine reward circuitry.
The grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund
research focused
on finding novel positive modulators for GABAB receptors that have the potential to become treatments for nicotine
addiction.
«More
research is needed into the effects of nicotine
addiction on the adolescent brain, given converging evidence from other drugs of
addiction that exposure during this key developmental period can have lasting effects
on the brain extending into adulthood.»
Warren Bickel, an
addiction neuroscientist with the Virginia Tech Carilion
Research Institute, will brief a group of White House officials
on the latest behavioral decision science underlying drug
addiction and intervention, particularly in terms of opioids.
For the
research, which was published in The Journal of Neuroscience
on Sept. 7, the researchers wanted to know if there was a way to influence specific neurons in the neuronal circuit that drives alcohol use and
addiction.