Pharmacology

Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticles In Household Products Linked To Cancer In Mice

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles are found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint and vitamins, and have caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a study conducted by researchers at UCLA’s   Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2009 - 10:07am

Passive Smoke Exposure Results In Nicotine Dependence?

If you start smoking cigarettes, chances are you'll become addicted. But that's only part of the story, according to new research published in Psychopharmacology.  After exposing rats to passive smoke and studying how their brains responded, the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2009 - 2:50pm

Gambling Addicts Can Be Treated With Drug Abuse Medications

 When it comes to gambling, many millions of people just don't know when to walk away. The behavior can take a tremendous toll on their finances and family life, and currently available treatments are often associated with extremely high relapse rates ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2011 - 2:58pm

Are Male And Female Adolescents At Different Risk For Caffeine Addiction?

Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant drug and enjoys the cultural shield of being both legal and acceptable.    A caffeine addiction is considered perfectly normal. But with soft drink and coffee companies like Starbuck's aggressively m ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2009 - 3:50pm

Excess Serotonin Receptors Undercut Effectiveness Of Antidepressants

An excess of a particular serotonin receptor in the center of the brain may explain why antidepressants fail to relieve depression symptoms for 50 percent of patients, indicates a new study published in Neuron. The authors say the study is the first to fin ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2010 - 1:46pm

Prescription Opioid Use Linked To Drug Overdoses

Though it's commonly thought that most opioid overdoses occur among drug abusers and people who obtain the drugs illegally, a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine links the risk of fatal and nonfatal opioid overdose to prescription u ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2010 - 7:25pm

SSRI Antidepressants No Better Than Placebo Says JAMA

A study just published in JAMA Jan 5, reported that SSRI antidepressants are no better than placebo for most cases of depression. The authors reviewed 30 years of data and concluded that "the benefit of antidepressant medication compared with placebo ...

Article - Jeffrey Dach MD - Feb 1 2010 - 11:20am

Carnivorous Plants: The Latest Source Of Anti-Fungal Drugs

The chemical compounds carnivorous plants in the tropics use to dissolve their prey could serve as a new class of anti-fungal drugs for use in human medicine, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University's Department of Plant Sciences. In a study ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2010 - 5:20pm

Does Recreational Drug Use Damage Memory?

A new study from UK researchers suggests that deficits in prospective memory (remembering to remember, or remembering to perform an intended action) are more common for recreational drug users. The new research appears in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2010 - 11:39am

Science Reveals Secrets Of Female Sexual Arousal

Researchers have discovered more about the mechanisms underlying female sexual arousal using a novel prototype drug called UK-414,495, according to findings published this week in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Researchers found that electrically sti ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2010 - 10:39am