The Addicted Doctor

The drug-addicted doctor--who dares to care?

The Addicted Brain

example is inflammation: perhaps the simplest form of pathology. It has well defined characteristics which, for many of the old continent, were described in latin: rubor, tumor, calor, dolor, and functio lesa. When these characteristics are present, the pathology/disease can be diagnosed. If it occurs in the lung it will indicate pneumonia, in the kidney nephritis etc. Likewise, a brain chronic...

The addicted brain.

ERIC J. NESTLER and ROBERT C. MALENKA study the molecular basis of drug addiction. Nestler, professor in and chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1998. Malenka, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, joined the faculty there after...

The “addicted” spine

Units of dendritic branches called dendritic spines represent more than simply decorative appendages of the neuron and actively participate in integrative functions of "spinous" nerve cells thereby contributing to the general phenomenon of synaptic plasticity. In animal models of drug addiction, spines are profoundly affected by treatments with drugs of abuse and represent important sub cellula...

Stigma in the addicted person.

Editorial of vol. 29-4.