Our brains make their own marijuana: We're all pot heads deep inside
PhysOrg Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:03 PM PDT
U.S. and Brazilian scientists have just proven that one of Bob Dylan's most famous lines -"everybody must get stoned" - is correct. That's because they've discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal, may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating ... |
News & Star
The News and Star Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:49 PM PDT
The family and friends of brave young brain tumour victim Ethan Tweedie rallied to his support in a sponsored 12-hour tennis game. The six-year-old Carlisle youngster was rushed to hospital for lifesaving surgery in January. |
Brain can be conditioned to crave unhealthy foods
The Pantagraph Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:48 PM PDT
NEW 3:30 p.m. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Food hijacked Dr. David Kessler's brain. Not apples or carrots. The scientist who once led the government's attack on addictive cigarettes can't wander through part of San Francisco without craving a local shop's chocolate-covered pretzels. |
Help Zlata!
St. Petersburg Times Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:25 PM PDT
A donation campaign in support of two-year-old Zlata Chernoknizhnaya. At the end of 2006 it was discovered that Zlata was suffering from a malignant brain tumor. For a year and a half the girl underwent chemotherapy in hospital. But the tumor continued to grow. |
Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'
Science Daily Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:20 PM PDT
Scientists have discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite and preventing marijuana abuse. |
Controlling our brain's perception of emotional events
PhysOrg Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:04 PM PDT
Research performed by Nicole Lauzon and Dr. Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario has found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance of our experiences and how we form memories of them. A lack of proper brain function in this area is what lies beneath such conditions as Schizophrenia and Post-Traumatic ... |
First noninvasive technique to accurately predict mutations in human brain tumors
PhysOrg Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:03 PM PDT
Donald O'Rourke, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues, were able to accurately predict the specific genetic mutation that caused brain cancer in a group of patients studied using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The researchers presented their findings this week at the American Association for Cancer Research 100th Annual ... |
Unhealthy foods hijack overeaters' brains
New Orleans Times-Picayune Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:01 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food hijacked Dr. David Kessler's brain. Not apples or carrots. The scientist who once led the U.S. government's attack on addictive cigarettes cannot wander through part of San Francisco without craving a local shop's chocolate-covered pretzels. Stop at one cookie? Rarely. |
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