Brain Changes In Addiction | Addiction Treatment Strategies

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The popular, formerly caffeinated, fruity alcoholic beverage, Four Loko, has been blamed for the spike in alcohol-related hospitalizations, especially throughout college campuses.
Initially, caffeine was deemed the culprit and the Food and Drug Administration ordered all traces of…

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A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved
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Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic…

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— Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed an imaging protocol that allows them to visualize the activity of the brain’s reward circuitry in both normal individuals and those addicted to drugs. The technique could lead…

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In the name of science, eight men and seven women drank alcohol through a straw while lying in an MRI scanner, presumably not all together, to see what would happen.
It went to their heads. Quickly, the researchers say.
Only 6 minutes after consuming an amount of alcohol equivalent to…

BufferDeficits in pattern separation impact not only learning/memory, but also mood/anxiety disorders, like PTSD and panic disorder
 Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have developed a new way to stimulate neuron production in the adult mouse brain, demonstrating that neurons…

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One can look at drug addiction as a moral issue, a social ill, or a criminal problem. But Lynn Oswald’s experience studying the neuroscience of addiction tells her that it is something else entirely: a disease of the brain. 
“Addiction is a brain disease because…