Considerations for the Use of DREADDs in Behavioral Neuroscience
There's a technology that's proven to be increasingly useful in the past decade -- it's called DREADD, or "designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs." The current approach is to creat...
16 Mar 20189min
Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews: Cannabis and Cannabinoids: From Synapse to Society
The 2018 issue of Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews, "Cannabis and Cannabinoids: From Synapse to Society," showcases the remarkable advances in the biology of cannabinoids and cannabis in the past two d...
12 Jan 20189min
Opioid Release after High-Intensity Interval Training in Healthy Human Subjects
Many people who exercise regularly have experienced a so-called "runner's high," either a feeling of euphoria after exercise, or a feeling of happiness and well-being. Scientists have studied this and...
10 Nov 20176min
Opioid Self-Administration is Attenuated by Early-Life Experience and Gene Therapy for Anti-Inflammatory IL-10 in the Nucleus Accumbens of Male Rats
Studies have shown that stress and trauma early in life can lead to an increased risk for drug addiction later in life. In rat models developed to mimic and study this effect, some rats received norma...
13 Sep 20178min
Beta-Adrenoceptor Blockade in the Basolateral Amygdala, But Not the Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Rescues the Immediate Extinction Deficit
One method of treating Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) involves extinction therapy, but researchers have found that the timing of such therapy is extremely important, and that it often doesn't w...
13 Jul 20178min
Arbaclofen in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a disorder that has been defined by the medical community, but so far, none of the medications available for ASD treat the core symptoms of the disease, but rather secondar...
12 Mai 20179min
The Gateway Hypothesis of Addiction
The National Institutes of Health recently published a statement requiring sex as a biological variable in studies. This is in part simply because it's good science, and in part to correct for decades...
15 Mar 20178min
Sex as a Biological Variable: Who, What, When, Why, and How
The National Institutes of Health recently published a statement requiring sex as a biological variable in studies. This is in part simply because it's good science, and in part to correct for decades...
12 Jan 20179min
