Your brain on 'shrooms: fMRI elucidates neural correlates of psilocybin psychedelic state
(Medical Xpress) -- Psychedelic substances have long been used for healing, ceremonial, or mind-altering subjective experiences due to compounds that, when ingested or inhaled, generate hallucinations, perceptual ...
Neuroscience
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Recovery housing and treatment programs reduce relapse among recovering opioid addicts
Opioid-dependent individuals who want to kick the habit typically begin the road to recovery with detoxification. But detox is ineffective as a stand-alone treatment, with relapse rates ranging from 65% to 80% just one month ...
Addiction
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Rainforest plant combats multi-resistant bacterial strains
Aggressive infections in hospitals are an increasing health problem worldwide. The development of bacterial resistance is alarming. Now a young Danish scientist has found a natural substance in a Chilean rainforest plant ...
Medical research
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Neighborhood bar density linked to intimate partner violence-related visits to emergency department
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been linked to heavy drinking, substance use by one or both partners, and living in a neighborhood characterized by poverty and social disadvantage. Alcohol outlet density has been linked ...
Health
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Stress in cells activates hepatitis viruses
People who have received a donor organ need lifelong immunosuppressant drugs to keep their immune system from attacking the foreign tissue. However, with a suppressed immune system, many infectious agents ...
Medical research
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Seizures in patients with pork tapeworm caused by Substance P
A neuropeptide called Substance P is the cause of seizures in patients with brains infected by the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium), said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears online in the open access ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Lecture or listen: When patients waver on meds
Take your medicine, Doctor's orders. It's a simple idea that may seem especially obvious when the pills are the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that add decades to the lives of HIV-positive patients. But despite the reality that ...
HIV & AIDS
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Paper calls for more to be done to help young people with depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems in young people worldwide, but it often goes unrecognised and untreated. Left untreated, adolescent depression increases the risk of suicide, substance abuse, and ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Cocoa could prevent intestinal pathologies such as colon cancer
A new study on living animals has shown for the first time that eating cocoa (the raw material in chocolate) can help to prevent intestinal complaints linked to oxidative stress, including colon carcinogenesis ...
Cancer
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Report: Mental illness struck 1 in 5 US adults in 2010
One in five adults in the U.S. had a mental illness in 2010, with people ages 18 to 25 having the highest rates, according to a national survey.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Homeless heavy drinkers imbibe less when housing allows alcohol
A study of a controversial housing project that allows chronically homeless people with severe alcohol problems to drink in their apartments found that during their first two years in the building residents cut their heavy ...
Health
Jan 19, 2012 |
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First link between potentially toxic PFCs in office air and in office workers' blood
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists are reporting that the indoor air in offices is an important source of worker exposure to potentially toxic substances released by carpeting, furniture, paint and other ...
Health
Jan 18, 2012 |
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International health experts call for a special UN session on mental health
A group of international health experts has called for a special session of the United Nations (referred to as UNGASS - United Nations General Assembly Special Session) to focus global attention on mental, neurological, and ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Mental illness protects some inmates from returning to jail
People with mental illness have gotten a bad rap in past research studies, being labeled the group of people with the highest return rates to prison. But a researcher from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Scientists isolate protein linking exercise to health benefits
A team led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has isolated a natural hormone from muscle cells that triggers some of the key health benefits of exercise. They say the protein, which serves as a chemical messenger, ...
Medical research
Jan 11, 2012 |
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