A genetic difference at the opiate receptor gene affects a person's response to alcohol
... author of the study. "This system is involved in craving and the motivation to use alcohol and drugs. Thus, it is alcohol's effects on endogenous opioids that act as the gateway through which alcohol may influence this system." "It is well known that alcohol dependence tends to run in families," said Robe...Brain scan study of smokers reveals signature of craving
... asked participants to rate the intensity of their craving for cigarettes. The researchers scanned the subjects' brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, in which harmless magnetic fields and radio waves are used to produce images depicting blood flow in brain regions. That blood flow reflects bra...National experts to gather for 'groundbreaking' alcohol, drug abuse, chemical intolerance meeting
...dence, is a disease that includes such symptoms as craving to drink and loss of control -- not being able to stop drinking once drinking has begun, Overstreet said. "Other symptoms include physical dependence resulting in the negative effects of withdrawal such as nausea, sweating, shakiness and anxiety afte...Grabbing addiction by the tail
...ated sniffing, licking, and grooming, indicating a craving for the drug. Such behavior parallels the compulsive thought patterns that people addicted to drugs experience, said Anthony Phillips, Wang's colleague at the University of British Columbia and a co-author of the article. After keeping the rats drug...New study finds common herbal supplement helps to reduce cocaine cravings
...dergoing treatment for cocaine addiction. Reduced craving might help addicted individuals restrain from abus... Those individuals treated with NAC reported less craving for cocaine and spent less time looking at the cocaine-related pictures. In addition, when using a ...Three neuronal growth factors may be key to understanding alcohol's effects
... from the African shrub iboga, could stop all drug craving for several weeks in humans who had taken the drug. Ibogaine has dangerous side effects, however, including hallucinations and death of brain cells in some areas. "We used rodents to determine that ibogaine increases GDNF in the VTA, which decrease...How the brain learns to become addicted
...ain that appears to trigger the brain to "learn" a craving for cocaine. Their finding could offer an importan...tor that the animals are experiencing an increased craving for the drug. Importantly, when the researchers "microinjected" directly into the VTA region of anim...Stress-induced levels of corticotropin-releasing factor responsible for binge behaviour
... humans when they are stressed show an exaggerated craving for a reward a piece of sugar - whenever presented with a cue that had previously been associated with that reward. This result explains why stressed individuals might be more likely to experience strong cravings for rewards and compulsively indulge...Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex
...ole in the development of addiction and tolerance, craving and loss of impulse control witnessed in so many drug-affected states. It also helps to understand on a physiological and molecular level why the behaviour may be difficult to stop, despite knowledge of negative consequences." For this study, resear...'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving
...e you get it, you just feel fabulous." The brain's craving for a fix motivates humans to maximize the rate at which they absorb knowledge, he said. "I think we're exquisitely tuned to this as if we're junkies, second by second." Biederman hypothesized that knowledge addiction has strong evolutionary value be...Under certain genetic circumstances, naltrexone may increase the urge to drink
.... Naltrexone (NTX) is able to reduce drinking and craving among many alcoholics and heavy drinkers, but not ...he study. Also, he added, "how this difference in craving related to naltrexone's effects on drinking over the weeks prior to the experiment was not reported....University, VA hospital launch nation's first comprehensive meth research center
...he areas and systems of the brain involved in drug craving and drug effects. Another will examine the changes...d theme will look at the effects of stress on drug craving and the potential for relapse. The fourth will study impulsivity and the decision-making process ass...New data hint at oncoming cocaine epidemic
...eurotransmitter dopamine, which in turn triggers a craving for more of the drug. It is this "drive for the drug," he said, that makes it more likely for someone who has used cocaine once to use it a second time. Gold and his colleagues, including Bruce Goldberger, Ph.D., a professor of pathology, immunology...Tiny worm provides model for the genetics of nicotine dependence
...ce works, and perhaps devise new ways to block the craving that keeps humans smoking cigarettes. Nicotine is the addictive substance in tobacco. Dependence on nicotine drives many of the most preventable causes of death in the U.S. and is a worldwide health problem. A team led by X.Z. Shawn Xu, assistant re...The G allele of the mu-opioid receptor gene is linked to craving for alcohol
...the G allele affects subjective experience such as craving for alcohol after exposure, this could also have a...e trials. Dependent variables included subjective craving for alcohol, subjective arousal, and saliva production. "By looking at cue-elicited craving in heav...Some brain-damaged patients quit smoking with ease, researchers report in Science
...ing we subjectively feel, such as hunger, pain, or craving for a drug. Compared to other brain regions, the insula has not attracted very much attention in drug addiction research until now, but some imaging studies have shown that this region is activated by drug-associated cues, such as the sight of people...Sequence variation in the alpha synuclein gene contributes to alcohol craving
... might be important in determining an individual's craving for alcohol. "Using previous research as a buildi...mprehensive survey of the role of this gene in the craving for alcohol and alcoholism." Foroud and her colleagues examined a sample of 219 alcoholic familie...OHSU lab finds meth receptor that could lead to therapy
...meths adverse health effects as well as reduce the craving that drives its abuse. Working in the recently o... new pharmaceuticals that reduce dependence on and craving for methamphetamine." The study is published in the April edition of the Journal of Pharmacology a...Hormone that signals fullness also curbs fast food consumption and tendency to binge eat
...xperience the increased feeling of hunger and food craving that often occurs when food intake is reduced with dieting, Weyer said Fast food intake and binge eating: The researchers also examined how the hormone affected certain hedonic aspects of eating. Hedonic eating includes, for instance, the consumpti...