Cars: beating a new addiction

8. Quitting Smoking and Beating Nicotine Addiction

Adolescent neuroscience of addiction: A new era

Adolescence has long been recognized as a time of dramatic hanges in body and behavior. More recently it is being recognized s a time of dramatic changes in brain as well. Advances in neuoimaging technologies have made knowledge of the anatomy and hysiology of the developing brain increasingly accessible. Several large scale initiatives using magnetic resonance imagng (MRI) to characterize adol...

Internet Sex Addiction – A New Distinct Disorder

Previous studies have shown differences in clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) between men and women, including mean age at onset of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS), types of OCS, comorbid disorders, course, and prognosis. The aim of this study was to compare male and female patients with OCD on several demographic and clinical characteristics. All new patients with OCD...

De-addiction: A new risk for anesthesia

Sir, These days we encounter several patients of substance dependence for elective surgical procedures or in an emergency. These patients at that time may be either addicted to them or on de-addiction treatment. Physical addiction to any drug is a function of multiple neuroadaptations (tolerance, sensitization, and withdrawal) of the body to the effect of the drug.[1] Smokeless tobacco or finel...

New Optical Tracking Methods for Robot Cars

In this paper new methods are proposed for intelligent optical tracking of robot cars, the important tools of CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing), which can be an alternative of former tracking methods. These methods, are partly based on the new adaptation of some basic picture processing methods known in the literature (Hough transformation, Walsh transformation), and the method described ...