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How Two Brain Areas Interact to Trigger Divergent Emotional Behaviors
March 20, 2013 — New research for the first time explains exactly how two brain regions interact to promote emotionally motivated behaviors associated with anxiety and reward. The findings could lead to new mental ... > full story -
Adults With Mental Illness or Substance Use Disorder More Likely to Smoke
March 20, 2013 — Adults aged 18 or older who experienced any mental illness or who have had a substance use disorder in the past year are more likely to smoke and to smoke more heavily than others, according to a new ... > full story -
Brain-Mapping Increases Understanding of Alcohol's Effects on First-Year College Students
March 19, 2013 — Scientists have completed a first-of-its-kind longitudinal pilot study aimed at better understanding how the neural processes that underlie responses to alcohol-related cues change during students' ... > full story -
Pre-College Talk Between Parents and Teens Likely to Lessen College Drinking
March 19, 2013 — Teen-age college students are significantly more likely to abstain from drinking or to drink only minimally when their parents talk to them before they start college, using suggestions in a parent ... > full story -
Knowledge of the Game Is Not an Advantage in Sports Gambling
March 19, 2013 — Scientist have found that neither betting experience nor knowledge of the details of the game provides an advantage to strategic sports gamblers. He says that they operate under an illusion of ... > full story -
Spine Patients Who Quit Smoking Report Diminished Pain
March 19, 2013 — Smoking is a known risk factor for back pain and disc disease. In a new study, researchers reviewed smoking cessation rates and related pain in 6,779 patients undergoing treatment for spinal ... > full story -
Study Shows Rising Rate of Propofol Abuse by Health Care Professionals
March 18, 2013 — Abuse of the anesthesia drug propofol is a "rapidly progressive form of substance dependence" that is being more commonly seen among health care professionals, a new study ... > full story -
Novel Drug Delivery System Releases Drugs in Response to Compression by the Patient's Hand
March 17, 2013 — Medical researchers have succeeded in developing a gel material which is capable of releasing drugs in response to pressure applied by the ... > full story -
Discovery Could Yield Treatment for Cocaine Addicts
March 15, 2013 — Scientists have discovered a molecular process in the brain triggered by cocaine use that could provide a target for treatments to prevent or reverse addiction to the ... > full story -
Dating in Middle School Leads to Higher Dropout, Drug-Use Rates, Study Suggests
March 15, 2013 — Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their ... > full story
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