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Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label reward pathway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reward pathway. Show all posts
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Multiple Addictions

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Why isn’t one drug enough? The newer views of addiction as an organic brain disorder have cast strong doubt on the longstanding assumption...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

What’s a Neurotransmitter, Anyway?

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A brief guide for the perplexed. A neurotransmitter is a chemical substance that carries impulses from one nerve cell to another. Neurotrans...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Neuroaddiction and the Reward Pathway

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How addictive drugs fool Mother Nature "The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain,” writes Alan Leshner, th...
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