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Food for thought: how convincing is the addiction model?
Obesity is at pandemic levels in the western world. You won’t be surprised to hear that central to this is our increasing appetite for food, and lots of it. As clinicians attempt to think outside the...
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Obesity research highlights potential new drug
New evidence from work carried out in Cambridge suggests that a certain dopamine antagonist reduces bias towards rewarding foods in overweight and obese participants. It is hoped that this might...
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Dr Graham Murray appointed Unversity Lecturer in Psychiatry
The Department would like to extend congratulations to Dr Graham Murray who has recently been appointed as University Lecturer in Psychiatry and honorary consultant psychiatrist. Julia Graham caught up...
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Unique risk taking in different disorders of natural and drug reward.
Scientists at the BCNI recently published the results of a large study looking at risk taking in disorders of natural and drug reward. Published in the Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, the paper...
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Annual Paykel lecture by Dr Nora D. Volkow.
The distinguished scientist Dr Nora Volkow gave this year’s Paykel lecture titled “Brain on Drugs: from Reward to Addiction” on 8 September. Dr Volkow is head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in...
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