Each person’s body and brain are different. People also react differently to drugs. Some love the feeling the first time they try it and want more. Others hate it and never try again. Not everyone who uses drugs becomes addicted. But it can happen to anyone and at any age. Some thing...
No abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1002/scin.5591811120Laura SandersJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.Science News
49. “Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.“– Nizar Qabbani 50. “Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of th...
Receptorsareproteinmolecules that recognize and respond to the body’s own (endogenous) chemical messengers, such ashormonesorneurotransmitters. Drug molecules may combine with receptors to initiate a series of physiological and biochemical changes. Receptor-mediated drug effects involve two distinct processe...
Other hazards of drug abuse include general risks, such as the danger of infection by the AIDS virus and other diseases that can be communicated by use of nonsterile needles or syringes when drugs are taken by injection. Some hazards are associated with the specific effects of the particular ...
Cannabis use in adolescence: Visible effects on brain structure Wed, 2024-10-23 11:12 A collaborative study sheds light on how cannabis use affects brain development in young people, the main one being atrophy of certain regions of the cerebral cortex. ...
In this Review, we first examine the effects of normal and diseased CNS physiology on drug delivery to the brain and spinal cord. We then discuss CNS drug delivery designs and materials that are administered systemically, directly to the CNS, intranasally or peripherally through intramuscular ...
intravenous (and intra-arterial) drug administration provides the most complete drug availability with a minimal delay – by control of the administration rate, constant plasma concentrations can be obtained at a required level – unexpected side effects observed during the administration period can be ...
Batch effects can limit the usefulness of image-based profiling data. Here, authors benchmark ten popular batch correction techniques on a large Cell Painting dataset, evaluating multiple metrics. They identify Harmony and Seurat RPCA as top methods across diverse complex scenarios. John Arevalo , El...
It has to persuade patients to sign up for some heinous side effects. And then there’s the small matter of overturning centuries of, as it turns out inaccurate, assumptions embedded in the Latin root of the word obesity: “having eaten until fat”. © Studio Hosego Since the second ...