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Addiction and Cognitive Functions

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2008
Drug addiction is a compulsive behavioral abnormality. In spite of pharmacologic and psychosocial treatments to reduce or eliminate drug taking, addiction tends to persist over time. Preclinical and human observations have converged on the hypothesis that addiction represents the pathologic deterioration of neural processes that normally serve ...
SPIGA, SATURNINO, A. LINTAS, M. DIANA
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Carbohydrates and cognitive function

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, 2018
Recent evidence documents the negative impact of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and other metabolic dysregulation on neurocognitive function. This review highlights a key dietary factor in these relationships: refined carbohydrates.Chronic consumption of refined carbohydrates has been linked to relative neurocognitive deficits across the lifespan ...
Misty A W, Hawkins, Natalie G, Keirns, Zachary, Helms   +2 more
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