By Daniela Bayer, on November 14th, 2010%
Cocaine is illegal, relatively expensive, and highly addictive. Approximately 10% of Americans have used cocaine. Cocaine is a neurotoxin that is used as a stimulant as it increases neural and cognitive, behavioral, and sensory activity, and suppresses the need for sleep or food. The toxic effects of cocaine include insomnia, tremors, nausea, hyperthermia, and psychosis.
A heavy . . . → Read More: Chemicals that harm with pleasure: Cocaine
By Daniela Bayer, on November 9th, 2010%
Tobacco: is legal. 70% of people who try it become addicted. 20% of deaths each year are due to smoking. Smoking has a genetic effect. It causes nausea, cough, dizziness, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and compromises the immune system.
Smokers end up with panic attacks, cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, pneumonia, bronchitis, . . . → Read More: Chemicals that harm with pleasure: Tobacco
By Daniela Bayer, on August 14th, 2010%
Researchers from the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Cincinnati’s Academic Medical Center looked at the impact of “mental practice” (the imaginal rehearsal of physical movements) on affected arm movements in stroke patients, as well as changes in cortical mapping in the brain.
Mental practice (MP) is a noninvasive, inexpensive method of enabling . . . → Read More: Stroke Patients Benefit from “Mental Rehearsals”