Hormone linked to brain's cravings for food and other energy sources
Ghrelin, a hormone produced in the stomach, induces food intake and operates through a brain region that controls cravings for food and other energy sources, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the October 19 online issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Ghrelin was previously associated with growth hormone release, appetite, learning, and memory and has now been link...Smokers may differ in their cravings for smoking
A brain scan study of the smokers reveals that the smokers may differ in their cravings// for a smoke depending on their brain’s sensitivity to smoking. Researchers have found that the urge to smoke after a period of abstinence will vary in smokers according to the brain responses to the smoking habit. Researchers from the Duke University Medical Center had looked into the brain images...Neurobiology Provides Answers To Block Memory-Related Drug Cravings
Drug addiction can be better handled following discovery of a novel chemical compound that blocks memory-related drug cravings. The finding has all the potential to be the basis of new therapies to aid drug-addiction recovery efforts // according to neurobiologists. Because exposure to people, places and objects previously associated with a drug habit can trigger overwhelming memory-b...Catherine Zeta wants to give up nicotine cravings
London:: Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta Jones has made a New Year's resolution to get rid of her nicotine cravings, because she is afraid of the impact her deadly habit will have on her growing kids. // The 36-year-old beauty, is concerned because her two children, Dylan-five and two-year-old Cary are approaching an impressionable age, when kids become curious to know about every l...Single Women with Baby Cravings Can Actually Cradle their Own, Courtesy NHS
Single Women who wish to have children of their own are growing in number, and this has led to a novel scheme whereby single women in their 30’s and 40’s desirous of having a child are going to be given free fertility treatment on the National Health Service.// Hospital administration is re-working the policy to help women have children without their partners. Camden primary care tru...