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Effects of Community-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation on Body Composition and Physical Function in Individuals With Stable Coronary Artery Disease: 1.6-Year Followup.

Effects of community-based cardiac rehabilitation on body composition and physical function in individuals with stable coronary artery disease: 1.6-year followup.

Biomed Res Int. 2013; 2013: 903604
Mandic S, Hodge C, Stevens E, Walker R, Nye ER, Body D, Barclay… Continue reading

A Choice-Based Screening Method for Compulsive Drug Users in Rats.

A Choice-Based Screening Method for Compulsive Drug Users in Rats.

Curr Protoc Neurosci. 2013 Jul; Chapter 9: Unit9.44
Lenoir M, Augier E, Vouillac C, Ahmed SH

We describe a protocol for screening compulsive drug users among cocaine self-administering rats,… Continue reading

Sex Differences in Negative Affect and Lapse Behavior During Acute Tobacco Abstinence: A Laboratory Study.

Sex Differences in Negative Affect and Lapse Behavior During Acute Tobacco Abstinence: A Laboratory Study.

Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2013 Jul 8;
Pang RD, Leventhal AM

Heightened negative affect during acute tobacco abstinence in women relative to men could be… Continue reading

How Can Suicide Ever Occur in a World Where the Only Real Force Is the Will to Live?

Question by Third P: How can suicide ever occur in a world where the only real force is the will to live?
Thanks to all your answers. Have a great day! Kindly confine your answer in a philosophical context. I… Continue reading

Clinical and Reliable Change in an Australian Residential Substance Use Program Using the Addiction Severity Index.

Clinical and Reliable Change in an Australian Residential Substance Use Program Using the Addiction Severity Index.

J Addict Dis. 2013 April-June; 32(2): 194-205
Deane FP, Kelly PJ, Crowe TP, Coulson JC, Lyons GC

Although the Addiction Severity Index (ASI)… Continue reading

Effectiveness of a Feedback-Based Brief Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use in Community Substance Use Disorders.

Effectiveness of a Feedback-Based Brief Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use in Community Substance Use Disorders.

Alcohol Treat Q. 2013; 31(186): 186-205
Worden BL, McCrady BS

Feedback brief interventions for alcohol use problems have been highly effective with undergraduate populations.… Continue reading

Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Children’s Emotional Problems: Can Early Child Care Help Children of Depressed Mothers?

Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Children’s Emotional Problems: Can Early Child Care Help Children of Depressed Mothers?

JAMA Psychiatry. 2013 Jun 19; 1-9
Herba CM, Tremblay RE, Boivin M, Liu X, Mongeau C, Séguin JR, Côté SM

IMPORTANCE Maternal depression… Continue reading

Differential Regulation of the Period Genes in Striatal Regions Following Cocaine Exposure.

Differential Regulation of the Period Genes in Striatal Regions following Cocaine Exposure.

PLoS One. 2013; 8(6): e66438
Falcon E, Ozburn A, Mukherjee S, Roybal K, McClung CA

Several studies have suggested that disruptions in circadian rhythms contribute to the… Continue reading

Trials of Acupuncture for Drug Dependence: A Recommendation for Hypotheses Based on the Literature.

Trials of acupuncture for drug dependence: a recommendation for hypotheses based on the literature.

Acupunct Med. 2013 May 10;
White A

OBJECTIVES: After initial promising research into acupuncture for withdrawal from drugs of dependence, two large negative trials were… Continue reading

Cocaine Tolerance in Honey Bees.

Cocaine tolerance in honey bees.

PLoS One. 2013; 8(5): e64920
Søvik E, Cornish JL, Barron AB

Increasingly invertebrates are being used to investigate the molecular and cellular effects of drugs of abuse to explore basic mechanisms of addiction. However,… Continue reading