Showing posts with label serotonin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serotonin. Show all posts
Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Year in Drugs

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Top Posts at Addiction Inbox. By the look of it, readers had marijuana on their minds in 2012. Of the posts at Addiction Inbox with the h...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

A Six-Pack of Prior Posts

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Don’t fear the chemistry.  This isn’t a top 10 list, just a compilation of five previous posts here at Addiction Inbox that have continue...
Monday, May 24, 2010

X-ed Out.

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Another look at MDMA and serotonin. A study by Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has confirmed earlier findings that...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Three Drug-Related Posts (Good Ones)

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And a plea for your vote. The DrugMonkey blog, written by an anonymous NIH-funded biomedical researcher,  takes on the question of why d...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Addiction Inbox Top Ten

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A rundown of the most popular posts . What are readers of Addiction Inbox interested in? Although scarcely scientific, a look at the most...
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...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Bulimia: What To Look For [Guest Post]

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Signs and symptoms of a dangerous disorder. [Today’s guest post was contributed by Heidi Taylor. I include it here as part of a continuing ...
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Monday, June 2, 2008

The Biology of Bulimia

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The binge-and-purge addiction. By 2000, the biological substrate unifying alcoholism, addiction, depression, and certain eating disorders ha...
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...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Marijuana Withdrawal

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For Some Users, Cannabis Can Be Fiercely Addictive. (Note: more than 1200 comments below) See Also: Is Marijuana Addictive ? (>14...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Bulimia as Food Addiction

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Serotonin-mediated brain activity drives the binge-and-purge cycle Bulimia , the binge-and-purge disorder that tends to afflict young women...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Serotonin and Dopamine: A Primer

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The Molecules of Reward Serotonin and dopamine are part of a group of compounds called biogenic amines . In addition to serotonin and dopa...
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