"We have not had any really effective new treatments for nerve pain for a long time and this work opens up the possibility of designing a new class of drugs with improved safety and effectiveness."■
the behavior. When teens use drugs regularly, the brain repeatedly adapts to the presence of the drugs and associates it with positive rewards. Some people are genetically more vulnerable to this adaptation than others. They’re at a risk fordeveloping an addiction. In those teens, the brain ...
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In addition to dopamine,playing gamescan also have an impact on other brain chemicals, such as adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline is released during moments of intense excitement or fear, which can be experienced during high-stakes gaming moments. Cortisol, on the other hand, is released in res...
theblood-brain barrier, so that other scientists can better predict which drugs are likely to work in humans. The barrier is made of many different cells tightly packed together. Models of this have been created in the past but the tricky part is to recreate the scaffolding between the cells...
and associated disorders like addiction; using mating behavior as a prototypic model to better understand motivation and associated disorders, especially the neuroendocrinological factors that regulate depression and addiction; the neuroendocrine underpinnings of gender differences in response to drugs of abuse...
However, addictive substances like alcohol and drugs of abuse can overwhelm the natural reward pathways in your brain, resulting in intolerable cravings and reduced impulse control. A popular misconception is that addiction is a result of low willpower. However, an explosion of knowledge and ...
But that system is a one-way street — our bodies didn't evolve to keep blood from pooling in the brain. When this happens, all sort of things could go wrong, including ruptured blood vessels, which can lead to brain hemorrhage. Impact on Heart Medical professionals think heart failure is...
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the more plastic we produce, the more microplastics are escaping into the environment. And that will fossilize. So actually, there's talk of using this as a marker for human existence on this planet, our impact on this planet, you know, a thousand years from now, whatever our species ...