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2013-08-25 Science & Technology
Cocaine rapidly changes the brain
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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-25 16:31|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 new structures linked to learning and memory

Hmmm, is there any way to allow the brain to grow, but NOT be addicted?

If so there's a lot to learn. (High school)
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-08-25 18:12||   2013-08-25 18:12|| Front Page Top

#2 FUD. There is no way that cocaine is "addictive" but coffee isn't.
Posted by Iblis 2013-08-25 18:27||   2013-08-25 18:27|| Front Page Top

#3 
"We'll...no shit?"
- Sr. Drill Instructor Hartman
Posted by Lowspark 2013-08-25 19:00||   2013-08-25 19:00|| Front Page Top

#4 There is no way that cocaine is "addictive" but coffee isn't.

You meant 'caffeine', right?
Posted by Pappy 2013-08-25 19:14||   2013-08-25 19:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, cocaine and caffeine are both alkaloids. Along with curare, mescaline and a bunch of other interesting but dangerous molecules...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 19:51||   2013-08-25 19:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Forgot to mention nicotine, another alkaloid, dontcha know...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 19:52||   2013-08-25 19:52|| Front Page Top

#7 caffeine doesn't spark that ATM-elbow reaction
Posted by Frank G 2013-08-25 20:17||   2013-08-25 20:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Native Americans have been using tobacco and peyote for a long time. Nicotine and mescaline...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 20:33||   2013-08-25 20:33|| Front Page Top

#9 
Native Americans have been using tobacco and peyote for a long time.


And see what it's done for them!

Does this explain Obama?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-08-25 20:59||   2013-08-25 20:59|| Front Page Top

#10 obooboo ain't no Native American. Since he doesn't want anyone to know where he came from, "citizen of the world" is a suspect origin...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 21:14||   2013-08-25 21:14|| Front Page Top

#11 I can't feature that, Jokerman.
Posted by Hupomorong Unath1167 2013-08-25 22:24||   2013-08-25 22:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Scopolamine, historically used for motion sickness and other forms of nausea, and now prescribed for depression, causes growth of the dendritic spines as well. It is thought that other anti-depressant drugs may also have a similar effect, although over a period of weeks and months rather than hours and days.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-25 23:22||   2013-08-25 23:22|| Front Page Top

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