It remains unknown whether neural abnormalities stimulated by early heavy alcohol use persist throughout the lifespan or revert to normative patterns after periods of short or long-term abstinence. fMRI studies provide a framework for understanding the regions of the brain associated with risky decision-making. The process of making a decision involves three distinct stages: 1)…
All posts tagged vertical grow system
Scientific analysis of a rope sample can provide clues to link a suspect to a crime
To identify whether e- and conventional-cigarette use status differentiates level of substance problems among substance ever-users, a supplementary analysis of the three substance problem outcomes was conducted that limited each analysis to ever-users of the respective substance using the same GLMM analytic strategy and covariates as the primary analyses with a continuous outcome distribution specified.…
HIV has been shown to cause significant impairments of varying severity in higher order brain functions
Lower UPSA-2 scores were related to lower education and WRAT-4 scores both in this study and the Blackstone et al. report, but in contrast to that study, our HIV+/ METH+ participants did not have lower education and WRAT-4 scores than the METH− groups, reflecting relatively intact premorbid intellectual functioning, or “cognitive reserve”, in the dually-affected…