News tagged with brain nicotine
How cigarettes calm you down
The calming neurological effects of nicotine have been demonstrated in a group of non-smokers during anger provocation. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions suggest that n ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Nicotine may have more profound impact than previously thought
Nicotine isn't just addictive. It may also interfere with dozens of cellular interactions in the body, new Brown University research suggests.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Scientists seek to manage dopamine's good and bad sides
The good, the bad and the ugly: That's a quick summary of the effects of dopamine, a natural brain chemical that's linked to pleasure, addiction and disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 07, 2009 |
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The more someone smokes, the smaller the number of gray cells
Is there a relation between the structure of specific regions of the brain and nicotine dependence? This is the question researchers of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Berlin, Germany, have been investigating ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Can't live without it: The nicotine addiction
The first pull on a cigarette should send you into convulsions. The brain proteins that nicotine affects are nearly identical to a receptor protein on muscle cells that tells them to contract, but nicotine ...
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Neuroscientist's discovery of new uses for old drug leads to patents, innovation award
University of South Florida neuroscientist R. Douglas Shytle's discovery of successful new clinical uses for mecamylamine, a drug once used to treat hypertension, has led to several issued patents on mecamylamine ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists discover nicotine could play role in Alzheimer's disease therapy
A team of neuroscientists has discovered important new information in the search for an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease, the debilitating neurological disorder that afflicts more than 5.3 million Americans and ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 13, 2010 |
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A molecular switch for memory and addiction
Learning and memory formation are based on the creation of new connections between neurons in the brain. Also, behaviors such as nicotine addiction manifest themselves in long-term changes of neuronal connectivity and can ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Targeting nicotine receptors to treat cognitive impairments in schizophrenia
Smoking is a common problem for patients with schizophrenia. The increased tendency of patients diagnosed with this disorder is to not only smoke, but to do so more heavily than the general public. This raises the possibility ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 11, 2011 |
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New Insight on How Fast Nicotine Peaks in the Brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicotine takes much longer than previously thought to reach peak levels in the brains of cigarette smokers, according to new research conducted at Duke University Medical Center.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Researchers find tiny genetic change keeps nicotine from binding to muscle cells
A tiny genetic mutation is the key to understanding why nicotine--which binds to brain receptors with such addictive potency--is virtually powerless in muscle cells that are studded with the same type of receptor. ...
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Just expecting a tasty food activates brain reward systems
Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, shows that exposing rats to a context ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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New targeted drug helps smokers stub it out
Researchers working in a research project within the Academy of Finland's Research Programme on Substance Use and Addictions have been developing a targeted drug that could aid in smoking reduction therapy. The new drug slows ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Nicotine harms the pubescent brain
Smoking at an early age can cause attention deficits in later life. Researchers at the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam (part of VU University and its medical centre) have discovered a new mechanism that explains how exposure ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 01, 2011 |
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