Alzheimer’s drug could cure people of binge eating addiction

Senior author, Teacher Pietro Cottone, of pharmacology and psychiatry at Boston University School of Medication, stated: “We found that memantine, which blocks glutamate NMDA receptors, blocks binge eating of junk food, blocks the strength of cues …See all stories on this subject

A new six-bed psychiatry unit for youngsters and teenagers opened Friday at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). It’s the very first devoted children’s psychiatric system at the hospital. Previously, patients 18 and younger who needed hospitalization for …See all stories on this subject

Newswise– MAYWOOD, Ill. (Nov. 13, 2014)– Loyola University Medical Center psychiatrist Angelos Halaris, MD, PhD, has been elected chair of the Immunology and Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. During a three-year, renewable term …See all stories on this topic

FJ is president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) and the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders (APMD). AO and CI are also members of the ISNPR and both AO and HS act upon the executive committee of …See all stories on this subject

Our research gives a much better understanding of the underpinning neurobiological mechanisms of the disorder,” added coauthor Valentina Sabino, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at BUSM and co-director of the Lab of Addictive Disorders.See all storieson this topic