The role of setting for ketamine abuse: clinical and preclinical evidence [PDF]
, 2012 Drug abuse is often seen as a unitary phenomenon, partly as a result of the discovery over the past three decades of shared mechanisms of action for addictive substances. Yet the pattern of drug taking is often very different from drug to drug.
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Synthetic cathinones are designer psychostimulants that are derivatives of the natural alkaloid cathinone, and produce effects similar to more traditional illicit stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine.
Erin K. Nagy +2 more
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Brain Sciences, 2022 Background: The role of the norepinephrine transporter (NET) has received increased focus in recent studies on the pathogenesis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Neurotoxicity induced by mephedrone: an up-to-date review [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Mephedrone is a β-ketoamphetamine belonging to the family of synthetic cathinones, an emerging class of designer drugs known for their hallucinogenic and psychostimulant properties as well as for their abuse potential.
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Hippocampal BDNF regulates a shift from flexible, goal-directed to habit memory system function following cocaine abstinence. [PDF]
, 2019 The transition from recreational drug use to addiction involves pathological learning processes that support a persistent shift from flexible, goal-directed to habit behavioral control.
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Role of Cannabidiol in the Therapeutic Intervention for Substance Use Disorders
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Drug treatments available for the management of substance use disorders (SUD) present multiple limitations in efficacy, lack of approved treatments or alarming relapse rates. These facts hamper the clinical outcome and the quality of life of the patients
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Modeling neurocognitive and neurobiological recovery in addiction [PDF]
, 2019 This book focuses on "what to know" and "how to apply" information, prioritizing novel principles and delineating cutting-edge assessment, phenotyping and treatment ...
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Modafinil-Induced changes in functional connectivity in the cortex and cerebellum of healthy elderly subjects [PDF]
, 2017 In the past few years, cognitive enhancing drugs (CEDs) have gained growing interest and the focus of investigations aimed at exploring their use to potentiate the cognitive performances of healthy individuals.
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Roar of meow-meow (mephedrone) in India
Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour, 2015 Recently, a dangerous new designer drug mephedrone has fast gained popularity among the youth and teens of India. Its abuse has soared to mount to an epidemic.
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Methylphenidate treatment beyond adolescence maintains increased cocaine self-administration in the spontaneously hypertensive rat model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder [PDF]
, 2015 Past research with the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder showed that adolescent methylphenidate treatment enhanced cocaine abuse risk in SHR during adulthood.
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