Can We Fight the Blues With Greens?

Published October 30, 2013

Can We Fight the Blues With Greens?
So you need more and more of the drug to get the same effect, and then when you're not on the drug you may feel crappy because normal volume transmission just isn't getting through. Antidepressants are thought to work along similar mechanisms. People …
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How does alcohol really make you feel?
The alcohol in that glass of sauvignon blanc or pint of beer affects the balance of chemicals in your brain and alters its processes. … "Alcohol, like any drug, skews the amount of dopamine in the limbic system, the brain's 'reward centre'," explains …
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Morning Break: Addictive Oreos and Sperm-Slaying Bacon
A researcher at Connecticut College reports that Oreo cookies are more addictive than cocaine or morphine — in rats. The findings will be reported next month at the Society for Neuroscience … CDC director Thomas Frieden told Wired that dealing with …
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