Sentences with phrase «study drugs like»

Over a few days of testing, I saw ones advocating for beer bonging, pot brownies, study drugs like Adderall and pouring crappy vodka into Grey Goose bottles to save money.

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Drug maker Lundbeck, genetic testing firm 23andMe, and think tank the Milken Institute are joining forces to study the genetic bases and underlying causes of psychiatric disorders like major depression and bipolar disorder.

For industries like healthcare, Larsen points out that various studies have found that the most «satisfied» patients are also those who spent the most on prescription drugs and were 12 percent more likely to be admitted to hospitals.

The study, published in the January edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, says spiritual but not religious people, as opposed to people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, were more likely to develop a «mental disorder,» «be dependent on drugs» and «have abnormal eating attitudes,» like bulimia and anorexia.

Bible Study is like a drug that pulls us away from the God of the Bible.

«They almost always use drug metaphors, like «higher than any high you can experience,» said Paul Williamson, a professor of psychology at Henderson State University in Arkansas who studies serpent handlers.

Several studies have found traditional Chinese herbal supplements to be tainted will all sorts of things, including actual pharmaceutical drugs, heavy metals and even DNA from endangered species like the snow leopard.

Also, if a pharmaceutical agent like GHRP - 6 is indicated for a skin condition there will be numerous studies and a new drug application to review.

To overcome the drowsiness caused by sleep deprivation, many kids resort to taking «study drugs» like Adderall (meant for kids with ADHD), which can impair long - term learning and can produce fatal arrhythmias.

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had earlier stated that BPA — the chemical that hardens plastics in products like bottles and cups, and is used in linings of metal cans — is safe; the agency announced last month that a few new studies have underlined «some concerns» about BPA's possibility of potentially damaging the brain of fetuses, infants and children.

«The problem with routine prescription of prenatal Rhogam is that many babies who are Rh negative like their mothers will be exposed to the drug, and there has been no systematic study of the long - term effects of this product in babies.

In controlled drug studies, some study participants receive the drug under testing; others get a placebo, which is like a sugar pill that has none of the drug being texted.

Let's say the blogosphere is abuzz about a research study that shows that sleep - training methods like cry - it - out have no long - term effects on children or that physically punitive discipline tactics like spanking result in children who are better behaved or that birthing without drug pain relief is dangerous.

Studies showed a huge percentage of users of hard drugs (like cocaine) had smoked marijuana earlier in their life.

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.

A drug that acts like a growth - promoting protein in the brain reduces degeneration and motor deficits associated with Huntington's disease in two mouse models of the disorder, according to a study appearing November 27 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

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.

«Imagine a drug that could act like Viagra in the inner ear,» says Lin, who notes that clinical trials are already underway to study the effects of such disease - modifying drugs.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

Next, researchers would like to study how the two - drug approach works in humans, although no clinical trials have yet been designed or scheduled.

Although the trial first received the go - ahead in January last year, it was put on hold the following August by the US Food and Drug Administration, which demanded further evidence that the treatment wouldn't cause cysts like those seen in some animal studies.

But Erica Clayton Wright, spokesperson for the Marcellus Shale Coalition in Pittsburgh, says the study doesn't go far enough to address «crucial issues linked to low birth weights like smoking as well as alcohol and drug use.

«Since epalrestat is already on the market and has no major adverse side effects, our study provides a proof of principle that it could become a valuable targeted drug for the clinical treatment of basal - like breast cancer,» Dong says.

But what about studies like Lurie's which conclude that exchanges do not encourage drug use?

The new study builds on a technique developed in 2013 by Sleiman's research group to make nanoscale «cages» from strands of DNA, and stuff them with lipid - like polymer chains that fold together into a ball - shaped particle that can contain cargo such as drug molecules.

The results suggest a clinical study should be conducted of a STAT3 - inhibiting drug in patients with basal - like and luminal cancers, Horvath said.

During a conversation this month in his office at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, Fine rattled off more dismal stats, like the many failed clinical trials of experimental drugs for glioblastoma; like the paltry increase in life expectancy for people with glioblastoma from 12 months in 1990 to 15 today; like the stupid (in hindsight) assumptions about how glioblastomas grow and how to study them in mice.

Osama Hamdy likes to talk about the Diabetes Prevention Program, a national study at Joslin and elsewhere that tested the impact of exercise and diet versus that of drugs.

A new drug target to treat depression and other mood disorders may lie in a group of GABA neurons (gamma - aminobutyric acid - the neurotransmitters which inhibit other cells) shown to contribute to symptoms like social withdrawal and increased anxiety, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience.

«I think I can best serve the research by not being a user - advocate,» he says, heeding a healthy number of studies that show the drug can precipitate psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and cause people to engage in lethal behavior like jumping off buildings.

Freeman fell from institutional favor in the mid-1950s, when long - term studies began to reveal his technique's failings and drugs like Thorazine came to market.

The professor and his colleagues demonstrated in their study that while resistance to drugs like chloroquine, which works to slow the growth of malaria, has been explored, an explanation of the resistance to the cell - destroying effects of the medication has not been fully understood.

«Reactions between chemotherapy drugs and other substances that the drugs come in contact with have, as far as we know, never been studied like this before,» Wells says.

We would like to study the reaction between chemotherapy drugs and other substances and coatings used on medical equipment,» Wells concludes.

A synthetic cannabis - like drug in a pill was safe and effective in treating obstructive sleep apnea in the first large multi-site study of a drug for apnea funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Plemper and colleagues also studied if administering a drug like this could help promote the rise of a formidable «superbug» of measles that would be resistant to this new drug and potentially fuel even more lethal strains of disease.

It might seem like evidence to say that two published studies show that a drug works.

«We are studying extinction learning and how vagus nerve stimulation can help subjects learn a new behavior that is opposed to an existing, maladaptive behavior like drug taking,» Kroener said.

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

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.

Think of it like this: if you want to study the effect of a drug, then you could theoretically give the drug to a random person and a placebo to another random person.

The study also suggested that these physiological changes and accompanying increases in anxiety indicate a state like withdrawal seen for many «sedative» drugs, such as alcohol, cannabis, and heroin, and this state may be responsible for some people's need to re-engage with their digital devices to reduce these unpleasant feelings.

But because marijuana is now classified as a Schedule I controlled substance — along with a cluster of drugs that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says have «no currently accepted medical use in the United States,» such as heroin, ecstasy, and LSD — any studies a researcher might like to pursue come with daunting roadblocks: See here, here, and here.

Their most powerful tool in this job is the randomized controlled trial, a type of experiment in which researchers separate participants into two or more groups and subject some of them to the intervention to be studied, like a new drug or surgical procedure.

Sentinel will treat the consumer market like one giant observational study to make sure the drugs are as safe and effective as believed.

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.

«Studies like this also give us a better understanding of how cancer changes to evade treatments — knowledge we can use when we are designing the new cancer drugs of the future.»

Previous studies have shown a benefit in adding a second antiplatelet drug like ticagrelor, from a class called P2Y12 inhibitors, but they investigated the additional therapy for only a year, leaving unanswered the question of whether patients would benefit from continuing this treatment longer.

Because the Ebola virus - like particles used for screening different drugs in this study were not fully infectious, Level 4 was not required.The viral mini-genome generated modifies the Ebola virus to produce virus - like particles that are no longer harmful to humans.

The development of radiotracers like this could radically change drug development, especially for neurological disorders, which are notoriously difficult to study in animal models.