in fact alcohol is a toxic substance that has a direct effect on brain. some of the most common mental disorders due to alcohol abuse are: memory disorder: hazardous amounts of alcohol may cause intoxication, impairment of memory so that the person who took a drunken accident may not remember the event. periods of memory impairment in those with a history of alcohol addiction would also happen ...

background and aims: alcohol abuse is an important concern of many societies. hippocampal neurogenesis regulates abusing drugs in a positive manner. the aim of this study was to identify factors that regulate neurogenesis in isolation period that increase preference for alcohol and salt. materials and methods: in this study sixteen rats were randomly divided into two groups: pair (social) and i...

Background: Public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol warrants drastic action throughout the world. Although less alcohol related harm is anticipated in Islamic countries, unrecorded alcohol remains a considerable concern which needs intelligent and realistic policy options. Methods: In a descriptive study, records  of chemically analyzed samples of alcohol obtained from Ma...

conclusions our results suggested that the prevalence of prescription drugs, alcohol and illicit substance use was relatively low, though still significant, among iranian students, which was strongly associated with family and friends’ use. the findings of this research can be used for planning and evaluating interventions by considering the risk factors and protective factors in universities. ...

Men who are violent toward their partners tend to have a dual problem with alcohol and drug use, yet little is known about differences between men with single rather than dual problems. This study was one of the first to evaluate differences between alcohol dependent men who were arrested for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) with and without concurrent illicit drug use. Seventy-eight participant...

OBJECTIVES 1) To cluster patients according to self-reported drinking patterns using cluster analysis; 2) to externally validate clustered groups on variables related to drinking but not used in the cluster analysis; and 3) to use the clustered patients' responses to alcohol consumption questions to develop a brief screening tool emergency physicians can use to identify patients in need of refe...

Alcohol exposure induces multiple neuroadaptive changes in the CNS that can have serious long-term consequences on CNS function including cognitive effects and attenuation of learning and memory. The cellular mechanisms underlying the CNS effects of alcohol have yet to be fully elucidated and are likely to depend on the pattern and dose of alcohol exposure. Using electrophysiological recordings...

BACKGROUND Alcohol use is a major and unpredictable driver of emergency department (ED) visits. Regional Twitter activity correlates ecologically with behavioral outcomes. No such correlation has been established in real time. OBJECTIVES The objective was to examine the correlation between real-time, alcohol-related tweets and alcohol-related ED visits. METHODS We developed and piloted a se...

background: substance abuse is one of the most complicated social problems. understanding socio-demographic characteristics of those who abuse substances could help deal with this problem more efficiently. the main objective of this study was to determine socio-demographic characteristics associated with alcohol drinking, cigarettes smoking and drug abuse among a sample of male medical universi...

objective(s): the aim of this study was to insert nitrofurazone in a chitosan membrane to be used as a wound dressing.   materials and methods: several blend films using chitosan (cs) and polyvinyl alcohol (pva), containing nitrofurazone were prepared by means of casting/solvent evaporating technique. different characteristics such as mechanical properties, water vapor transmission rate (wvtr),...