Author: janramaekers
Metabolomics predicts the pharmacological profile of new psychoactive substances.
March 25, 2019. Researchers from IMIM (Barcelona) and our department employed the quantification of monoamine neurotransmitters and steroid hormones in brain tissue and blood of rats to predict the pharmacological similarity of NPS to classical drugs of abuse. The metabolomics approach in animals improves the speed of NPS classification.
Esketamine als antidepressivum – Jan Ramaekers
07/03/2019. Jan Ramaekers spoke to Sander Hoogendoorn in his 3FM morning broadcast on the decision of the FDA to approve a ketamine derived depression drug. Listen to podcast here (scroll to 1 hr 51 min)
Study shows dopamine plays a role in musical pleasure
Medical Xpress, 22/01/2019. An international team of researchers has found evidence of dopamine in the brain playing a role in the pleasure people feel when they listen to music. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes experiments they carried out with volunteers who were given a dopamine precursor or antagonist and what they found.
NUcheckt: Aspartaam heeft waarschijnlijk geen negatief effect op humeur
NU, 15-12-2018 NU.nl checkt dagelijks berichten op betrouwbaarheid. Bewering: "Het binnenkrijgen van de zoetstof aspartaam kan ertoe leiden dat je je minder vaak gelukking voelt". Read more..
