News tagged with cocaine addiction
Ritalin improves brain function, task performance in cocaine abusers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain-scanning study shows Ritalin improves impaired brain function in people addicted to cocaine, implying it could play a role in facilitating recovery from addiction.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
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Scientists uncover previously unknown natural mechanism that controls cocaine use
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have found that a particular type of genetic material plays a key role in determining vulnerability to cocaine addiction and may offer an entirely new direction for the development ...
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Jul 07, 2010 |
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Ritalin may cause changes in the brain’s reward areas
(PhysOrg.com) -- A common treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, prescribed millions of times a year, may change the brain in the same ways that cocaine does, a new study in mice suggests. Research from Rockefeller ...
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Cocaine Vaccine Shows Promise for Treating Addiction
(PhysOrg.com) -- Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine resulted in a substantial reduction in cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial supported by the National Institute on Drug ...
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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A new ally in the battle against cocaine addiction
A recent study shows that a bacterial protein may help cocaine addicts break the habit.
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Jan 02, 2010 |
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Cocaine: Perceived as a reward by the brain?
Cocaine is one of the oldest drugs known to humans, and its abuse has become widespread since the end of the 19th century. At the same time, we know rather little about its effects on the human brain or the mechanisms that ...
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May 19, 2009 |
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New Findings Imply Exercise in Adolescence May Help Prevent Drug Abuse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Daily physical exercise during adolescence decreases cocaine-seeking behavior in young adult rats, implying that exercise may protect against cocaine abuse later in life.
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Aug 04, 2010 |
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Cocaine-linked genes enhance behavioral effects of addiction
New research sheds light on how cocaine regulates gene expression in a crucial reward region of the brain to elicit long-lasting changes in behavior. The study, published by Cell Press in the May 14th issue of the journal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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Increasing neurogenesis might prevent drug addiction and relapse
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center hope they have begun paving a new pathway in the fight against drug dependence. Their hypothesis - that increasing the normally occurring process of making nerve cells might prevent ...
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Feb 26, 2010 |
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New mechanism underlying cocaine addiction discovered
Researchers have identified a key epigenetic mechanism in the brain that helps explain cocaine's addictiveness, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes ...
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Jan 07, 2010 |
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Vaccine blocks cocaine high in mice
Researchers have produced a lasting anti-cocaine immunity in mice by giving them a safe vaccine that combines bits of the common cold virus with a particle that mimics cocaine.
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Jan 04, 2011 |
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70 percent of drug-addicted men admit they consume drugs to increase their sexual pleasure
72.28 per cent of drug addict men admit to have consumed drugs to be able to have sexual relations and most of them (58%) choose cocaine to this purpose, the narcotic which increases the most sexual incapacitation. On the ...
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Researchers find new way to fight cocaine addiction
UC Irvine pharmacological researchers have discovered that blocking a hormone related to hunger regulation can limit cocaine cravings. Their findings could herald a new approach to overcoming addiction.
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Apr 01, 2009 |
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MicroRNAs play a role in cocaine addiction
MicroRNAs, already linked to cancer, heart disease and mental disorders such as schizophrenia, may also be involved in addiction. A team of Rockefeller University neuroscientists has shown that a protein that plays a crucial ...
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Jul 27, 2010 |
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Drugs to treat cocaine abuse?
The authors of a new study in Biological Psychiatry explore pharmacological strategies for reducing cocaine self-administration in animals that may have implications for treating cocaine dependence in humans.
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Aug 10, 2010 |
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