Latest

nicotine addiction

This shows smoke and the back of a person

·January 4, 2021·4 min read

Vaping Combined With Smoking Is Likely as Harmful as Smoking Cigarettes Alone

Mixing traditional cigarettes with vaping products is as detrimental to health as smoking cigarettes alone, a new study reports.

This shows white smoke against a black background

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·December 28, 2020·4 min read

Light Smokers May Not Escape Nicotine Addiction

Those who consider themselves to be light smokers, in that they smoke between one to four cigarettes a day, meet the criteria for nicotine addiction.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·August 21, 2020·3 min read

Nicotine Withdrawal in Zebrafish Offers Clues to Human Addiction

The way zebrafish respond to repeated exposure and withdrawal from nicotine mirrors more complex human responses during withdrawal.

This shows smoke against a black background

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·January 4, 2020·3 min read

The best way to ditch bad habits: what science can teach us

Was your New Year's resolution to ditch a bad habit? Researchers explore the best ways to curb your withdrawal and explain why relapse isn't always such a bad thing.

This shows the cigarette with the warnings written on them

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·August 31, 2019·3 min read

Warnings on individual cigarettes could reduce smoking

Smokers exposed to individual cigarettes with public health warnings written on them felt the products were offputting and depressing. When surveyed, those who smoke said printing messages on cigarettes would prolong the health message and had the potential to discourage smoking in young people.

Featured Neuroscience

·May 22, 2019·4 min read

Early life exposure to nicotine alters neurons, predisposes brain to addiction later

Mouse study reveals neonatal nicotine exposure primes the ventral tegmental area, making the animals more susceptible to the effects of nicotine when exposed again later in life.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·April 19, 2019·3 min read

Metabolite may play a role in nicotine addiction

The metabolite cotinine may be amplifying, or contributing to, the addictive properties of nicotine, researchers report.

Featured Neuroscience Neuroscience Videos

·February 7, 2019·5 min read

This Is a Neuron on Nicotine

Researchers have developed a protein sensor which allows for the observation of nicotine's movement in cells.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·October 17, 2018·5 min read

Engineered Enzyme Eliminates Nicotine Addiction in Preclinical Tests

Researchers have engineered a new enzyme that breaks down nicotine in the bloodstream before it reaches the brain. The treatment reduces the urge to smoke and reverses signs of nicotine dependence, preventing relapse.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 28, 2018·3 min read

Researchers Develop Drugs with Potential to Curb Smoking

Researchers have developed more than a dozen new potential drug candidates they believe have the potential to curb smoking addiction by slowing how nicotine is broken down in the body.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 25, 2018·3 min read

Nicotine Alters Neurotransmission in Habit Forming Brain Region

According to a new study, nicotine reduces dorsal striatal output, underlying the urge to smoke and making it difficult to quite the addiction.

Image shows the interpeduncular nucleus of a mouse brain.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 28, 2017·5 min read

Brain Research Points the Way to New Treatments for Nicotine Addiction

Researchers have identified specific chemical changes in the brain that drive nicotine addiction. The findings could lead to new treatments to help break the addiction.

1 2 3 4

nicotine addiction

Vaping Combined With Smoking Is Likely as Harmful as Smoking Cigarettes Alone

Light Smokers May Not Escape Nicotine Addiction

Nicotine Withdrawal in Zebrafish Offers Clues to Human Addiction

The best way to ditch bad habits: what science can teach us

Warnings on individual cigarettes could reduce smoking

Early life exposure to nicotine alters neurons, predisposes brain to addiction later

Metabolite may play a role in nicotine addiction

This Is a Neuron on Nicotine

Engineered Enzyme Eliminates Nicotine Addiction in Preclinical Tests

Researchers Develop Drugs with Potential to Curb Smoking

Nicotine Alters Neurotransmission in Habit Forming Brain Region

Brain Research Points the Way to New Treatments for Nicotine Addiction

Early Screen Time Linked to Long-Term Brain Changes, Teen Anxiety

Missing Brain Receptor May Hold the Key to Autism

Is Your Oral Bacteria Influencing Multiple Sclerosis?

Stroke Weakens How the Brain Integrates Speech Sounds

Subscribe