Drugs Archives - Knowing Neurons

knowingneurons May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 Cigarettes, Drugs, Nicotine, Nicotine Replacement Therapy, NRT, Smoking, Tobacco

What Nicotine Does to the Brain, and the Science of Smoking Cessation

By William Pollard According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, success rates for cessation remain low, with only 7.5% of smokers managing to quit smoking entirely. The need… Read More

Did You Know?Neuro News Psychedelics

Andrew Bontemps April 25, 2023May 11, 2023 Antidepressant, Drugs, Plasticity, Psychedelics, Research

Taking a “trip” inside the cell: New research shows how psychedelics promote neuroplasticity

By Andrew Bontemps Original article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf0435 “Perspectives” article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg2989 Maxemiliano Vargas and colleagues from UC Davis and Medical College of Wisconsin recently released a paper describing some of the interesting… Read More

Cognition Neuroscience Technologies

Mariella Careaga September 28, 2022December 30, 2022 Alzheimers disease, Amyloid beta, Biomarker, Cognitive Decline, cognitive impariment, CSF, CT scan, dementia, diagnosis, Drugs, invasive testing, Metabolism, misdiagnosis, MRI, PET, Tau, tracer, Treatment

Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease

By Mariella Careaga Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain disorder that progressively impacts a person’s cognitive functioning and behavioral capacities, leading, ultimately, to the disruption of that person’s daily life.… Read More

Aging Cognition Learning and Memory

Diana Ortega Cruz May 10, 2022June 15, 2022 Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, Drugs, Memory decline, Treatment

Will this new drug change the way we manage and understand Alzheimer’s?

Written by Diana Ortega Cruz In June of 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aducanumab, the first drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) that targets… Read More

Mental Health Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Science Policy

Cecilia Rabayda April 27, 2022April 26, 2022 Cognition, Decriminalization, Drugs, mental health, Opiates, Psychosocial, Science Policy

Criminalization is an outdated approach to the US addiction crisis

(And why now is the perfect time to change it) The first time I heard the word prohibition was in eighth grade. The 18th amendment banned alcohol in 1918 in… Read More

Cognition Psychedelics Sensation and Perception

Sean Noah December 16, 2021January 13, 2022 Drug policy, Drugs, medicine, Pharmacology, Psychedelics, Research

Psychedelic Journal Club: Microdosing for Mental Wellbeing

A commentary on the article “Adults who microdose psychedelics report health related motivations and lower levels of anxiety and depression compared to non-microdosers by Joseph M. Rootman et al., published… Read More

Big Ideas Did You Know?Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Caitlin Aamodt March 1, 2018April 18, 2019 Addiction, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, depression, Drugs, Immune System, Law of Attraction, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, placebo, Placebo effect, Social experiment, Surgery, Synapses, Treatment

The Law of Attraction, the Placebo Effect, and the Immune-Brain Connection

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]iomedical researchers call it “the most replicated experiment in the history of science.” Simply put, the placebo effect is a phenomenon where people who believe they are being treated for… Read More

Neurolaw feature image, depicting libra scales with a brain on the left scale and a book on the right scale.

Big Ideas Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Science Policy

Brainfacts.org November 22, 2017November 21, 2017 Addiction, Courtroom, Drug policy, Drugs, Eyewitness testimony, Jed Rakoff, Justice, Law, Memory, Memory consolidation, Neurolaw, Neuroscience, Prison, Rehabilitation

Neurolaw: Combining Neuroscience and Criminal Justice

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he number of U.S. judicial opinions citing neuroscience more than doubled in the seven years from 2005 to 2012, according to an analysis in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.… Read More