Nature reviews a broad survey of research – two studies that conclude psychedelic drug use can’t be linked to psychosis:
… Read the rest “Acid casualties aren’t (almost ever).”In the first study, clinical psychologists Pål-Ørjan
Live Science grants us deep insight into the biochemistry of the bar pickup, revealing that prospective partners look a whole lot better after they’ve had one drink than they do after… Read the rest “One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)”
L.A. Times examines the biochemical power that love – or at least the “love hormone” oxytocin – has to neutralize alcohol and beat alcoholism:
… Read the rest “Love (hormone) against alcoholism.”…[N]ew
Popular Science looks at the hard facts behind decriminalization and legalization (two different things!) of marijuana – and what science says happens when cannabis consumption… Read the rest “Don’t despise it. Decriminalize it. (Or, you know, don’t… but at least know the facts.)”
New Scientist reveals how menthol – something originally added to cigarettes to soothe smokers’ throats – actually makes cigarettes more ‘cigarette-y’… Read the rest “Why menthol makes it harder to quit.”
IFL Science takes another look (courtesy of ISI Foundation researchers) at magic mushroom trips, and finds some surprises in what exactly psilocybin mushrooms do to your brain:
… Read the rest “No, *this* is your brain on drugs. All interconnected….”
Nature has more on how the veterinary tranquilizer-slash-rave drug can reverse “anhedonia” (the inability to feel happy) for 14 days – long enough to bust sufferers… Read the rest “Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.”
SONG: “Could You Tell Me Your Name?”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on“Anxiety and sleeping pills ‘linked to dementia'”, BBC News, 9 September 2014, as… Read the rest “SONG: Could you tell me your name?”
BBC reports the in no way worrisome news that researchers have discovered a correlation benzodiazepines (pills for anxiety and sleep) and a hugely increased risk of dementia:
… Read the rest “Worried? Trouble sleeping? Congrats, you might have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s.”A study of
Scientific American has more on the weird quantum effects that make consciousness go bye-bye:
… Read the rest “Anesthesia works by stealing electrons from your brain.”General anaesthetics may extinguish consciousness through mysterious quantum biological
Laboratory Equipment reveals recent findings (as cannabis becomes easier to research) that the marijuana plant might make better supercapacitors than the “wonder material”… Read the rest “Hemp really IS a super-material… in circuitry, that is.”
Science Daily pokes a hole in the optimism around electronic cigarettes with findings that they’re really not that different from the kind you light and burn:
… Read the rest “E-cigarettes not really that much better than the non-e variety.”The devices, which
ABC (the Australian network) muses on the next generation… wondering why the kids are avoiding alcohol nowadays:
… Read the rest “Kids these days… so *sober*.”The findings of a survey of more than 2,500 young people published
The New York Times looks at the first new research into LSD therapy in four decades:
… Read the rest “LSD is back in the lab… helping people face death.”“I’d never taken the drug before, so I was feeling — well, I think the proper word for it, in English, is dread,”
Science Daily has promising research from Notre Dame in the fight against antibiotic-resistant germs – a new class of chemicals that should kill bacteria like MRSA, the “super… Read the rest “New class of antibiotics may kill MRSA.”
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