The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group

The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group.

[The Cochrane Skin Group].

Over the last 10 years, the advent of evidence-based medicine has caused a paradigm shift in medical thinking and clinical practice. The Cochrane Skin Group organizes, drafts, publishes, and updates systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials of therapeutic interventions in skin diseases to assist in evidence-based clinical decision making. This article provides background information on t...

The neurobiology of tobacco addiction.

The key property that makes nicotine addictive is an ability to support the drug-seeking behaviour that has been demonstrated in self-administration and place preference experiments. This reinforcing effect is complex, possibly involving subjective states of euphoria, cognitive enhancements, changed adaptation to stress, and relief from the nicotine withdrawal syndrome. The neural mechanisms, d...

The Cochrane Anaesthesia Review Group.

Cochrane back review group.

The Cochrane Back Review Group is one of 50 Review Groups that produces and maintains systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare. The goal is to provide the most up-to-date information to inform clinical decisions at the individual, institutional and policy level. The scope of the Back Review Group is primary and secondary prevention and treatment of neck and back pain and other spinal dis...