Conflicting reports about whether adult hippocampal neurogenesis occurs in humans raise
questions about its significance for human health and the relevance of animal models …

Epidemiological studies find that psychiatric disorders, including mental disorders and
substance use disorders, are common among adults and highly comorbid. Integrated …

Objective: Early evidence suggests that ketamine may be an effective treatment to sustain
abstinence from alcohol. The authors investigated the safety and efficacy of ketamine …

Substance use disorders (SUDs) manifest as chronic relapsing disorders, characterized by
compulsive drug taking despite serious adverse consequences, the loss of control over …

Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and
many who are addicted have been able to recover. This authoritative book, now revised and …

Brain imaging technology has allowed researchers to conduct rigorous studies of the
dynamic course of alcoholism through periods of drinking, sobriety, and relapse and to gain …

Neurogenesis in adult humans remains a controversial area of research among
neuroscientists. Methodological challenges have hampered investigators from conducting …

Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic drug which acts on the central nervous system chiefly
through antagonism of the n-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. Recently, ketamine has …

Cannabidiol (CBD), the major non-psychoactive constituent of Cannabis sativa, has
received attention for therapeutic potential in treating neurologic and psychiatric disorders …

The active component in marijuana that people find so desirable was not really known until
the 1960s when a research team in Israel found that after injecting THC into aggressive …