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Nicotine but not saline self-administering or yoked control conditions produces sustained neuroadaptations in the accumbens shell

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2023
IntroductionUsing yoked animals as the control when monitoring operant drug-self-administration is considered the golden standard. However, instrumental learning per se recruits several neurocircuits that may produce distinct or overlapping ...
Ana Domi, Ana Domi, Erika Lucente, Davide Cadeddu, Louise Adermark, Louise Adermark   +5 more
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Persian Version of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire in Methamphetamine-Abstinent Individuals [PDF]

Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research
Background: Methamphetamine addiction is a growing global concern associated with executive dysfunctions that negatively impact daily life. Traditional tests for assessing executive dysfunctions are often complex and time-consuming.
Majid Farhadian, Malahat Akbarfahimi, Peyman Abharian   +2 more
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Social Support and Treatment Outcome in Alcohol Dependence Syndrome in Armed Forces [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Introduction: Social factors play vital role in unfolding of alcohol use disorders in any given population. Several factors beyond the confines of treatment settings influence treatment outcome in alcohol dependence syndrome.
Siddharth Dixit, Vinay Singh Chauhan, Sudip Azad   +2 more
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A Novel Hierarchical LATER Process Model: Evaluating Latent Sources of Variation in Reaction Times of Adult Daily Smokers

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Reaction time data from cognitive tasks continue to be a key way to assess decision-making in various contexts to better understand addiction. The goal of this paper is twofold: to introduce a nuanced modeling approach for reaction time data and to ...
Nicole J. Roberts, Zita Oravecz, Zita Oravecz, Briana N. Sprague, Charles F. Geier   +4 more
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The dynamics of some oxidative stress markers in 3, 6 and 12-months alcohol abstinent patients: possible relevance for the usage of antioxidants in alcohol withdrawal / Dinamica unor markeri ai stresului oxidativ la 3, 6 şi 12 luni de abstinenţă de la alcool: posibila relevanţă a utilizării de antioxidanţi

Romanian Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2014
În prezentul articol am fost interesaţi să studiem relevanţa stresului oxidativ în cadrul proceselor legate de abstinenţa de la alcool, având în vedere în special faptul că literatura de specialitate este extrem de controversată în acest domeniu de ...
Petrariu Florin, Alexinschi Ovidiu, Chirita Roxana, Chirita Vasile, Ciobica Alin, Padurariu Manuela, Lefter Radu, Dobrin Romeo, Popescu Radu, Anton Emil, Arcan Oana, Timofte Daniel   +11 more
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Discriminative stimuli are sufficient for incubation of cocaine craving

eLife, 2019
In abstinent drug addicts, cues formerly associated with drug-taking experiences gain relapse-inducing potency (‘incubate’) over time. Animal models of incubation may help develop treatments to prevent relapse, but these models have ubiquitously focused ...
Rajtarun Madangopal, Brendan J Tunstall, Lauren E Komer, Sophia J Weber, Jennifer K Hoots, Veronica A Lennon, Jennifer M Bossert, David H Epstein, Yavin Shaham, Bruce T Hope   +9 more
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Investigating the Residual Effects of Chronic Cannabis Use and Abstinence on Verbal and Visuospatial Learning

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Rationale: Regular cannabis users have been shown to differ from non-using controls in learning performance. It is unclear if these differences are specific to distinct domains of learning (verbal, visuospatial), exacerbate with extent of cannabis ...
Valentina Lorenzetti, Michael Takagi, Yvonne van Dalen, Murat Yücel, Nadia Solowij   +4 more
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Producing High Priests and Princesses: The Father-Daughter Relationship in the Christian Sexual Purity Movement

Religions, 2016
This article describes and analyzes father-daughter purity balls in the context of the contemporary U.S. American conservative Christian sexual purity movement, with an emphasis on taking the self-understanding of those involved in the movement into ...
Elizabeth Gish
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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Kathmandu University Medical Journal, 2012
Intrauterine exposure to drugs by mothers is not an uncommon finding ine our society. Due to the mother’s suppression of a medical history, the diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome is often missed. We report a case of a term, female, newborn, who presented with the following features;e restlessness, inconsolable crying, along with sweating ...
K K, Mishra, N, Chopra, A, Dudeja, V, Datta, A, Saili, A K, Dutta   +5 more
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Psychological dimensions in alcohol use disorder: comparing active drinkers and abstinent patients

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundAlcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major public health concern due to its various physical, psychological, and social consequences. Despite regulatory differences, abstinence remains the primary treatment objective.
Alessio Zizzi, Isabel Margherita Berri, Alessandro Berri, Martina Occhipinti, Andrea Escelsior, Andrea Escelsior, Riccardo Guglielmo, Riccardo Guglielmo, Beatriz Pereira Da Silva, Mario Amore, Gianluca Serafini, Gianluca Serafini   +11 more
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