Brain & Behavior:
A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging luminary has accused two previous scientific trainees of dubious academic shenanigans if not outright scientific misconduct. Nikos Logothetis discussed his complaints in a news focus published in Nature. Specifically, he: charged that two of his...
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Posted on July 16, 2008 3:35 PM • 15 Comments •
Recreational use and abuse of prescription narcotics has received much attention in recent years, from the 2003 revelation that Rush Limbaugh was abusing OxyContin to the multi-drug overdose of Heath Ledger. If you do a little searching you will no...
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Posted on July 9, 2008 9:49 AM • 12 Comments •
Functional imaging approaches such as fMRI that indirectly detect changes in correlates of neuronal activity in volumetrically defined brain locations are extremely popular right now. Investigators put animals or human subjects in an imaging rig, and then have the subject...
Posted on July 7, 2008 10:18 AM • 25 Comments •
A paper by Griffiths and colleagues has just appeared in the OnlineFirst archive of the Journal of Psychopharmacology. It describes a 14 month followup to their original paper on the spiritual and other effects of psilocybin consumption in humans. The...
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Posted on July 1, 2008 5:06 PM • 8 Comments •
Greg and Steve (not Adam and Eve) both blogged a recent paper by Degenhardt and (20 other) colleagues in PLoS Medicine. Steve: According to a new survey the USA has highest level of illegal cocaine and cannabis use in the...
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Posted on June 30, 2008 11:11 PM • 5 Comments •
2Figure 15b: Advanced emphysema in a relatively young (36-year-old) woman with a history of heavy cocaine abuse and unrelated mitral valve disease. Chest CT scan reveals diffuse advanced emphysema. The latest news in the celebrity drug-abuse world is that Amy...
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Posted on June 23, 2008 10:00 PM • 11 Comments •
Amongst all the obtaining of Programmatic scoop from the NIDA Director and assorted Program Officers, schmoozing with the senior scientists, rallying the junior scientist troops, reconnecting with old pals, taking care of committee business and whatnot... There is occasionally time...
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Posted on June 17, 2008 11:34 PM • 4 Comments •
As previously mentioned, I'm attending a meeting of an academic society focused on drug abuse science, The College on Problems of Drug Dependence. I'm not planning to blog live or anything like that but I may have a comment or...
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Posted on June 15, 2008 11:35 PM • 2 Comments •
An absolute lion, perhaps even the dean, of exogenous cannabinoid pharmacology has passed away. The obituary from the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch is here. MARTIN, Dr. Billy Ray, 65, of Richmond, died Sunday, June 8, 2008. He was Chairman of the...
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Posted on June 9, 2008 11:12 AM • 5 Comments •
dmAgent: "So, Postdoc B, what'd BigCheez have to say to you today" PdB: "Huh. Now that you mention it this is the first time BigCheez has ever directly smiled at me..." I don't really get the phenotype myself. My type...
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Posted on June 4, 2008 6:02 PM • 33 Comments •
