http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay) -- Got something to report about yourself? An opinion, perhaps, or a status update? Nobody may care except you, but new brain research suggests you can make yourself feel good simply by sharing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-people-brain-scans.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 May 2012 16:18:36 EST news255626282 Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict?Researchers from Norway have developed a new instrument to measure Facebook addiction, the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-facebook-addiction.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 May 2012 10:19:24 EST news255604692 A history of binge eating -- consuming large amounts of food in a short period of time -- may make an individual more likely to show other addiction-like behaviors, including substance abuse, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. In the short term, this finding may shed light on the factors that promote substance abuse, addiction, and relapse. In the long term, may help clinicians treat individuals suffering from this devastating disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-binge-addiction-like-behaviors.html Neuroscience Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:16:46 EST news254485000 Katya Nikitina could not sleep, think, or move during her first seven days at the rehab clinic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-russia-sea-drugs-rehab-harbour.html Addiction Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:10:24 EST news254023818 A new type of anti-epilepsy medication that selectively targets proteins in the brain that control excitability may significantly reduce seizure frequency in people whose recurrent seizures have been resistant to even the latest medications, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-medication-patients-frequent-uncontrollable-seizures.html Neuroscience Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:00:06 EST news253973295 Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that an injectable solution can protect mice from an otherwise lethal overdose of cocaine. The findings could lead to human clinical trials of a treatment designed to reverse the effects of cocaine in case of emergency. Cocaine is involved in more than 400,000 emergency-room visits and about 5,000 overdose deaths each year in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-antidote-cocaine-overdose-lab.html Medications Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:29:41 EST news253970959 (Medical Xpress) -- Better help with battling drug addiction could be at hand as a result of research underway at Victoria University of Wellington. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-combat-drug-addiction.html Medical research Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:20:01 EST news245642706 The Dutch government Tuesday banned the use of khat, a leaf native to East Africa chewed for its stimulant properties mainly by the Netherlands' sizeable Somali community. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-dutch-khat.html Medications Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:47:40 EST news245414838 An attentive, nurturing mother may be able to help her children better resist the temptations of drug use later in life, according to a study in rats conducted by Duke University and the University of Adelaide in Australia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-mother-drug-cravings.html Neuroscience Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:29:11 EST news242414937 The rapid emergence of synthetic new drugs, often sold online as "legal highs," represents a significant challenge for policy makers in the coming decade, a European Union drugs agency said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-eu-drugs-watchdog-legal-highs.html Health Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:09:25 EST news240574157 Variety is considered the "spice of life," but does today's unprecedented level of dietary variety help explain skyrocketing rates of obesity? Some researchers think it might. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-food-physiologically-drug-choice.html Health Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:57:59 EST news230299064 New discoveries by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) offer potential for development of a first-ever pharmacological treatment for cocaine addiction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-treatment-cocaine-addiction.html Medical research Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:00:37 EST news229953617 Using a combination of genetic engineering and laser technology, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have manipulated brain wiring responsible for reward-seeking behaviors, such as drug addiction. The work, conducted in rodent models, is the first to directly demonstrate the role of these specific connections in controlling behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-optogenetics-reward-seeking-behavior.html Medical research Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:00:25 EST news228571128 Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users' brains which are linked to their compulsive cocaine-using behaviour. Their findings were published today, 21 June, in the journal Brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-abnormal-brain-linked-chronic-cocaine.html Neuroscience Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:50:20 EST news227846999 The world is a dazzling array of people, objects, sounds, smells and events: far too much for us to fully experience at any moment. So our attention may automatically be snagged by something startling, such as a slamming door, or we may deliberately focus on something that is important to us right then, such as locating our child among the happily screaming hordes on the school playground. We also know that people are hard-wired to seek out and pay attention to things that are rewarding, such as food when we are hungry, or water when we are thirsty. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-attention-rewarding.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:29:37 EST news226672157