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Sarah Osborn24th November 2021 Currently, addiction theories pivot on a shared substrate of dopaminergic transmission; in other words, the wanting/liking...
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UCL Neuroscience Society welcome back Professor David Nutt, President of the European Brain Council and Edmond J. Safra Professor of...
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Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman synthesised LSD for the first time in 1938 while attempting to produce a blood stimulant for...
In recent decades doctors have branded addiction a brain disease, and treated it as such. But in this riveting and...
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Perhaps the most famous chemical compounds in our bodies, chances are you've heard of dopamine. But exactly what it is has...
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Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder affecting two million people in the UK. It is a persistent disorder of brain...
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“They smoke for the nicotine, but die from the tar.” The verdict of one researcher on health risks facing smokers....
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“I was sitting at home, poured myself another drink around midnight and was about to watch a movie when all...
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There is no doubt that smoking is harmful. Tobacco is thought to kill nearly 6 million people every year, but...
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It’s a Saturday night in Los Angeles and the University of South California’s Galen Centre is completely sold out. Over...
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Things are all atwitter in the social networking sphere after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took the risky decision to float...
