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Narcolepsy and rapid eye movement sleep
Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.Summary Since the first description of narcolepsy at the end of the 19th Century, great progress has been made. The disease is nowadays distinguished as narcolepsy type 1 and type 2. In the 1960s, the discovery of rapid eye movement sleep at sleep onset led to improved understanding of core sleep‐related disease symptoms of the disease (excessive ...
Francesco Biscarini +4 more
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Brain Sciences, 2013 Cocaine is a psychostimulant in the pharmacological class of drugs called Local Anesthetics. Interestingly, cocaine is the only drug in this class that has a chemical formula comprised of a tropane ring and is, moreover, addictive.
Patricia A. Broderick, Taylor Rosenbaum
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Nicotine addiction : a review [PDF]
, 2013 Nicotine, the major psychoactive compound in tobacco, acts as a potent addictive drug in humans. The addictive nature of nicotine leads to more than 6 million deaths a year.
Di Giovanni, Giuseppe, Vella, Jacob
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Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.Summary Parasomnias and sleep‐related movement disorders (SRMD) are major causes of sleep disorders and may be drug induced. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to examine the association between drug use and the occurrence of parasomnias and SRMD.
Sylvain Dumont +5 more
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In Search of the Neurobiological Substrates for Social Playfulness in Mammalian Brains
, 2011 Play behavior is a fundamental and intrinsic neurobehavioral process in the mammalian brain. Using rough-and-tumble play in the juvenile rat as a model system to study mammalian playfulness, some of the relevant neurobiological substrates for this ...
Panksepp, Jaak, Siviy, Stephen M.
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Trk: a neuromodulator of age-specific behavioral and neurochemical responses to cocaine in mice. [PDF]
, 2008 Responses to psychostimulants vary with age, but the molecular etiologies of these differences are largely unknown. The goal of the present research was to identify age-specific behavioral and molecular adaptations to cocaine and to elucidate the ...
Ehrlich, Michelle E +4 more
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Volume 201, Issue 4, Page 291-299, June 2026.ABSTRACT In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), methylphenidate is one of the most widely used drugs, in which patient response significantly impacts prognosis. This study aimed to characterize the molecular profile of 10 genes associated with methylphenidate therapy.
Aline Pasquini Santos +14 more
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Инновационная медицина КубаниBackground: Currently, the primary laboratory profile of trace element status in individuals consuming alcohol and other psychoactive substances, as well as the main mechanisms and consequences of these changes, is well understood.
G. A. Ermakova +5 more
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Use and Propensity to Use Substances as Cognitive Enhancers in Italian Medical Students
Brain Sciences, 2018 International media has paid attention to the use of substances by healthy subjects to enhance cognitive performance. Medical students are liable to use cognitive enhancers (CE) with the aim of improving academic performance.
Marcella Pighi +7 more
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Stimulant drug effects on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a review of the effects of age and sex of patients [PDF]
, 2010 Objective: As dopamine functioning varies by sex and age it might be expected that the effects of methylphenidate or amfetamine, the psychostimulants used for the treatment of Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), will also be moderated by ...
Barke, Edmund +2 more
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