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Medical News: Booze a Bad Mix With Poor Impulse Control - in Psychiatry, Addictions from MedPage Today
medpagetoday.com — “In a study among people seeking help for alcohol-related problems, those with poor impulse control had an increased risk of dying, researchers reported.” View full resource at medpagetoday.com
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Medical News: Booze a Bad Mix With Poor Impulse Control - in Psychiatry, Addictions from MedPage Today
medpagetoday.com — “In a study among people seeking help for alcohol-related problems, those with poor impulse control had an increased risk of dying, researchers reported.” View full resource at medpagetoday.com
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Medical News: Alcohol and Energy Drinks, a Risky Combination - in Psychiatry, Addictions from MedPage Today
medpagetoday.com — “When energy drinks are mixed with alcohol they have the potential to create a risky mental state of reduced impulse control and enhanced stimulation, results of a small clinical study suggested.” View full resource at medpagetoday.com
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Genetic Variant + Alcohol May Trigger Impulsive, Violent Behavior | Psych Central News
psychcentral.com — “While under the influence of alcohol, certain people who have a genetic difference in a brain receptor molecule may be more prone to violent, impulsive” View full resource at psychcentral.com
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Animal Research Provides Insight on Compulsions | Psych Central News
psychcentral.com — “Research on the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain's reward system may provide insights on impulse control problems associated with addiction” View full resource at psychcentral.com
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Impulse Control Findings May Lead to ADHD, Addiction Treatments | Psych Central News
psychcentral.com — “Impulsivity is often considered a part of someone's personality, perhaps a trait that can't be changed. However, scientists at Queen's university have” View full resource at psychcentral.com
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Brain's impulse control center located | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Impulsive behavior can be improved with training and the improvement is marked by specific brain changes, according to a new study.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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2010-09-17 Spike activity | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: There’s a fantastic discussion and video interview on America’s first prison for drug addicts, “the world's most famous " and infamous " center for the treatment and study of drug addiction”, over at Neuroanthropology. The Guardian has a piece by psychologist Susan Blackmore on [...]...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Hazelden And Nation's Largest Addiction Counselor's Association Announce Strategic Partnership To Improve Treatment Of Co-Occurring Disorders | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, and Hazelden, the national nonprofit focused on addiction treatment, prevention and recovery announced a new strategic partnership focused on improving the treatment of co-occurring disorders...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Canadian Employers Burdened With Mental Health, The Most Costly Disability | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Mental illness is associated with more lost work days than any other chronic condition, costing the Canadian economy $51 billion annually in lost productivity. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have calculated the actual cost of mental health leave and found that on average it's double the cost of a leave for a physical illness...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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UCLA Psychologist Says People Can Overcome Their Addictions, But Not Quickly | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Millions of Americans suffer from severe addictions that can ruin lives and are extremely difficult to control. Nearly 2 million enter roughly 12,000 addiction treatment programs in the U.S. each year. And each month, some 15,000 people turn to Adi Jaffe's All About Addiction websites and at Psychology Today, which provide information, the latest research and answers to readers' questions...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Ritalin improves brain function, task performance in cocaine abusers, study finds | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “A brain-scanning study reveals that an oral dose of methylphenidate, commonly known as Ritalin, improves impaired brain function and enhances cognitive performance in people who are addicted to cocaine. The study suggests that methylphenidate, combined with cognitive interventions, may have a role in facilitating recovery from drug addiction.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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The Meaning of Addiction: DSM-5 Gives the Lie to Addiction as a Chronic Brain Disease | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “Although Charles O'Brien, MD, who heads the substance-related disorders work group, is a vigorous proponent of the notion of addiction as a disease, nothing about the proposed DSM-5 substance-related disorders section supports the idea that the syndrome is best understood as a chronic brain disease.” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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The Curious Case of Parkinson's Medications and Compulsive Behavior | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “A study in the recent Archives of Neurology documents the connection between certain Parkinson's disease medications and a significant increase in the likelihood of an impulse-control disorder: buying, gambling, eating, or sex. The drugs at issue are dopamine-agonists, a class of pharmaceuticals that ease the difficult and frustrating motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's. But patients who...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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Drugs To Treat Cocaine Abuse? | Psydir News
news.psydir.com — “The authors of a new study in Biological Psychiatry explore pharmacological strategies for reducing cocaine self-administration in animals that may have implications for treating cocaine dependence in humans. Glutamate is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, which has been implicated in drug addiction...” View full resource at news.psydir.com
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