Gut Microbes Influence How Rat Brains React to Opioids
April 27, 2020
Antibiotic treatment — which depletes gut microbes — drastically changes the parts of a rat’s brain that are activated during opioid addiction and withdrawal.
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Program Gives UC San Diego Health New Resources to Combat Opioid Epidemic
February 20, 2019
UC San Diego Health is among 31 health facilities selected from across the state to participate in the California Bridge Program, an accelerated, 18-month training program for health care providers to enhance access to around-the-clock treatment for patients with opioid use disorder.
In Mice, Alcohol Dependence Results in Brain-Wide Remodeling of Functional Architecture
January 14, 2020
Using novel imaging technologies, researchers produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction and abstinence remodel neural physiology and function in mice.
Brain Differences in College-aged Occasional Drug Users
March 25, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered impaired neuronal activity in the parts of the brain associated with anticipatory functioning among occasional 18- to 24-year-old users of stimulant drugs, such as cocaine, amphetamines and prescription drugs such as Adderall.
Opioid treatment tracking startup celebrates string of successes
April 27, 2022
CARI Health, a startup in the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur’s MedTech Accelerator, was named a Connect “Cool Company” on the heels of winning the $300,000 grand prize at the San Diego Angel Conference.
Smoking Cessation Drug Not Boosting Number of Smokers Who Quit
August 17, 2015
…has been to displace the use of older tobacco addiction therapies, such as nicotine patches and the antidepressant, bupropion.
Early Life Exposure to Nicotine Alters Neurons, Predisposes Brain to Addiction Later in Life
May 21, 2019
Neonatal exposure to nicotine alters the reward circuity in the brains of newborn mice, increasing their preference for the drug in later adulthood, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine in a published study.
Study Suggests Menthol Cigarettes Increase Youth Smoking, Nicotine Addiction
June 6, 2022
Menthol cigarettes increase youth smoking and nicotine addiction report researchers at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego.
Popular Pain Medication Associated with Greater Risk of Hypoglycemia
August 28, 2019
As the opioid tramadol has grown in popularity so too have documented cases of adverse effects. In a new study, researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego show that patients who take tramadol are at greater risk for hypoglycemia, abnormally low blood sugar.
Real-time Readout of Neurochemical Activity
October 27, 2014
Scientists have created cells with fluorescent dyes that change color in response to specific neurochemicals. By implanting these cells into living mammalian brains, they have shown how neurochemical signaling changes as a food reward drives learning, they report in Nature Methods online October 26.
