Addiction
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
NIDA research reveals subconscious signals can trigger drug craving
Brain imaging on drug addicted patients shows that poorly controlled desires begin even when cues are unseen. Using a brain imaging technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists have discovered that cocaine-related images trigger the emotional centers of the brains of patients addicted to drugs—even when the subjects are unaware they’ve seen anything.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
How We Get Addicted
I was driving up the Massachusetts Turnpike one evening last February when I knocked over a bottle of water. I grabbed for it, swerved inadvertently--and a few seconds later found myself blinking into the flashlight beam of a state trooper. “How much have you had to drink tonight, sir?” he demanded. Before I could help myself, I blurted out an answer that was surely a new one to him. “I haven’t had a drink,” I said indignantly, “since 1981.”
Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Are You Really Ready To Clean Up Your Act?
We’re fat. We smoke. Drink too much. Don’t exercise enough. And our stress levels are off the charts. We’re killing ourselves, and we know it. And yet we carry on—overeating, lighting up, slumping in front of the television and throwing back another beer—inspiring some of the greatest thinkers in the worlds of genomics, neuroscience, biochemistry and evolutionary psychology to ponder the Big Mac of medical questions: Why is it so hard for people to change? In the end, what doctors and studies and experts have pointed out is that the thing that really helps to change behavior is something hard to measure but ultimately powerful. Change comes from the heart, not the head.
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Friday, March 17, 2006
Job stress tied to higher risk of drug abuse
Young workers who feel high stress on the job may be at increased risk of using drugs, new research suggests. In a survey of nearly 1,000 young adults, researchers found that those who reported high job strain when they were first interviewed for the study were more likely to have started abusing marijuana, cocaine, heroin or other drugs one year later.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Study examines effects of stress on women
New research indicates that stress might do more than simply gray hair. Researchers found that female rats that experienced early-life stress had a higher tendency toward drug addiction and overeating.
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Thursday, October 14, 2004
Stress and genetics - increase risk of addiction
New research has found extreme stress can trigger a gene making it harder for people to resist alcohol and drugs in social situations. The research has discovered that people who have the gene and are exposed to stressful situations, particularly as teenagers or young adults, are at a high risk of becoming alcoholics, addictive smokers or heroin addicts.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Workaholism: The ‘Respectable’ Addiction
If work consumes you and destroys and personal life, there could be more going on; you could be a workaholic.
Sunday, October 20, 2002
Are online video games addictive?
It’s 9:00 p.m. in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Tracy Montague is putting her three children to bed. She’s alone – a single mom. As in most homes, mom’s orders are not always followed. But that all changes the moment Tracy turns on her computer. Here, everyone pays attention. The beleaguered single mom becomes Chanteez Soulcharmer of Valorguard, a dragon-slaying enchanter in the online world of EverQuest.
Monday, June 10, 2002
[url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun01/cogcentral.html]Cognition is central to drug addiction [/url]
Recent research shows that drug abuse alters cognitive activities such as decision-making and inhibition, likely setting the stage for addiction and relapse.