This Is Your Placenta on Drugs: More Evidence against Maternal Drug Use

This is your placenta on drugs

Previous studies have shown that children's blood lead concentrations tend to increase during hot summer months. In this issue, Lih-Ming Yiin and colleagues from the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, explore whether some of this elevation can be explained by seasonal increases in t...

This Is Your Fly's Brain on Drugs

This is your Twitter on drugs: Any questions?

Twitter can be a rich source of information when one wants to monitor trends related to a given topic. In this paper, we look at how tweets can augment a public health program that studies emerging patterns of illicit drug use. We describe the architecture necessary to collect vast numbers of tweets over time based on a large number of search terms and the challenges that come with finding rele...

“This is your brain on drugs”: adolescent substance use prevention through neuroscience education

Interest in the brain has risen dramatically in recent decades, suggesting that neuroscience-based information about substance use risks could be a compelling addition to prevention efforts. However, no studies have tested this approach among adolescents. In this study, we tested the effects of a high school science curriculum called “The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology through the Study of A...

This is Your Brain on Parasites.