The Vicious Cycle of Obesity
America has a problem Obesity rates are on the rise in America. Obesity is currently the second leading cause of preventable death in the US behind tobacco use....
Month: April 2016
Do Alcohol and Nicotine go Hand in Hand?
While it is common knowledge that alcohol consumption impairs the ability for individuals to make wise and rational decisions, could it encourage people to feed...
Why do Alcohol and Tobacco usually go together?
The danger of smoking and drinking is already spread to all the society. Advertising campaigns try to alert people of the evils involved in smoking and drinking...
Quitting is Scientifically Hard
As many people know, alcohol and nicotine are extremely addictive, but the reason why is unknown to most individuals. Through my research, I was interested in w...
Nicotine in the Brain: Will E-Cigs be able to Solve the Problem of Smoking?
As we are all aware, smoking has some pretty severe possible side effects that result in physical changes inside and outside your body that could potentially ca...
A Martini A Day Keeps the Doctor Away?
This past week in Neurochemistry class focused on Alcohol and Nicotine. We learned about how the effects of both drugs are more related on a chemical level tha...
Vapor or Smoke? Pick Your Poison.
In 1965, according to the CDC, 42% of American adults were considered regular cigarette smokers. Today, with the help of scientific publication and a large gove...
LTP and how learning effects abuse potential
There are numerous ways our brain “learns” and one of the main ways, and most common, is called long term potentiation (LTP). What happens is in cer...
Cheers to Ethanol and Nicotine is the Devil: Why We Need to Take a Second Look at the Glories of Ethanol
Everyone knows the horrors of cigarettes. We’ve all seen the commercials of the premature aging, the inevitable lung cancer, the life draining chemicals that co...
Why Nicotine is so Hard to Quit
The amount of people smoking cigarettes in the United States has been on the decline since it was first recorded in 1965, and is continuing to decline. This is ...