Tag Archives: pharmacology

January 25

Instant Gratification: Weighing the Psychological Benefits and Costs of MDMA Use

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Can a pill exist that brings instant happiness without any negative side effects? Probably not.

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January 28

Dawn of the DREADD

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[En Español] There are few things I find more satisfying than a good acronym, and DREADD  or Designer Receptor Exclusively Activated by a Designer Drug has got to be my favorite.  The name is just so evocative.  Whenever I think about DREADDs, I find myself picturing some sort of Star Wars villain; maybe due to […]

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November 18

Antidepressants, plasticity, and language development

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As an attendee at the 5th annual Society for Neurobiology (SNL) conference, four years had passed since my first exposure to the meeting–a discussion of the state-of-the-art research being done on the neuroscience of language processing. In those four years, things have happened! This meeting left me marveling at new advances and the number of […]

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