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Neuro Cartilla: Los principios básicos de la adicción

May 28, 2021August 6, 2021 Elizabeth Burnette Addiction, Alcohol, Behavioral Neuroscience, Hippocampus, Nucleus accumbens, Tolerance, Withdrawal

Artículo original: Neuro Primer: Addiction Basics , Elizabeth Burnette Traducido por Jayleska Johnson ~~~ La mayoría de nosotros estamos familiarizados con sustancias adictivas desde el alcohol hasta los opioides o a… Read more

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Neuro Primer: Addiction Basics

March 22, 2021May 31, 2021 Elizabeth Burnette Addiction, Alcohol, Behavioral Neuroscience, Hippocampus, Nucleus accumbens, Tolerance, Withdrawal

Spanish Translation also available here: Neuro Cartilla: Los principios básicos de la adicción ~~~ From alcohol to opioids to cocaine, most of us are familiar with addictive substances. But how does… Read more

Did You Know? Learning and Memory

Quick buzz. Slow learning.

December 5, 2012March 5, 2017 Anita Alcohol, Binge, Current Biology, Ethanol, Fruit Flies, Hangover, Learning, Memory, negative association task, Neural Adaptation Leads to Cognitive Ethanol Dependence

Beer and wine are quite possibly the oldest known man-made beverages. Anthropologists have discovered beer jugs that date back to the Neolithic period (10,000 B.C.), and Egyptian pictographs clearly show… Read more

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Mending a broken heart with alcohol

December 3, 2012March 5, 2017 Jooyeun Lee Alcohol, Drosophila, Fruit Flies, Mating, Reward, Science, Sexual Deprivation Increases Ethanol Intake in Drosophila, Shohat-Ophir

Getting over a breakup is not easy; rejection is even more awful. Many people turn to alcohol to drown out their sorrow. In an attempt to study this seemingly unreasonable… Read more