Topic: Nora Volkow
Cigarette and alcohol use by US teenagers are at their lowest point since the mid-1970s, but marijuana use remains steady, according to the findings of a national survey released Wednesday.Some 18.7 percent of grade 12 high school students, typically aged ...
Don't fill in this field IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . What's the Latest Development?. . Smokers may be right to be concerned about...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients prescribed higher doses of powerful painkillers are more likely to die of an accidental overdose on those drugs, according to a new study.The finding is the latest addition to the debate in the medical community over ...
Posted on 02/24/11 at 12:50pm by Roger Nachman . According to a study from the National Institutes of Health, cell phones may alter your brain...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Spending 50 minutes with a cellphone plastered to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in the part of the brain closest to the antenna.But whether that causes any harm is not clear, scientists at the National ...
By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters. . CHICAGO — Spending 50 minutes with a cell phone plastered to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in...
Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More teens may be smoking marijuana than cigarettes but fewer are binge-drinking, federal health officials said Tuesday.An annual survey on drug use found increases in marijuana use among all age groups but showed slightly fewer high school seniors were ...
National survey finds teens bingeing less on alcohol but smoking more marijuanaAmerica's teens are using more marijuana and less alcohol, according to an annual government study of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders across the country.Some 6.1 percent of high-school seniors ...
HEALTHBEAT: Substance-abuse treatment may get boost from monthly, even longer-lasting optionsNew treatments for addiction to heroin or narcotic painkillers promise longer-lasting relief that may remove some day-to-day uncertainty of care: A once-a-month shot is now approved and a six-month implant is in ...
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Science: Nora Volkow - nytimes.com/video
An interview with the neuroscientist in charge of the National ...2011-06-14 -
The Communicators: Dr. Nora Volkow
Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug ...2011-05-22 -
Drugs and the Adolescent Brain: A ...
Drugs and the Adolescent Brain: A Conversation with Nora Volkow ...2010-02-22
