Medicina
February 6, 2025
Lavinia Hogea, Dana Cătălina Tabugan, Iuliana Costea et al.
14 citations
Background and Objectives: Substance use disorders (SUDs) affect millions worldwide. Despite increasing drug use, treatment options remain limited. Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT), integrating psychedelic substances with psychotherapy, offers a promising alternative by addressing underlying neural mechanisms. Materials and Methods: This review’s purpose is to investigate the current...
Medicina
May 9, 2023
Gniewko Więckiewicz, Julia Marek, Iga Stokłosa et al.
5 citations
Background and Objectives: PolDrugs is the largest Polish naturalistic nationwide survey to present basic demographic and epidemiological data that could potentially prevent harm from illicit substances intake in drugs users. The most recent results were presented in 2021. The goal of this year’s edition was to re-present the above data and compare it to the previous edition’s data to identify...
Medicina
March 16, 2021
Joanna Szarmach, Wiesław Jerzy Cubała, Adam Włodarczyk et al.
14 citations
Background and Objectives: There is evidence for ketamine efficacy in treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Several safety and tolerability concerns arise that some psychotropic agents may provide blood pressure or/and heart rate alterations. The aim of this study is to review blood pressure measurements in course of the treatment with ketamine on treatment refractory inpatients with somatic...
Medicina
2021
A. J. Kolgashkin, П. Н. Николаев, E. J. Tetenova et al.
1 citation
Cannabis continues to be the most widely used drug worldwide. Recently, there has been two trends in the field: a liberalization of cannabis-related legislation in a number of countries, as well as an increase in the content of the psychoactive component in cannabis plant – tetrahydrocannabinol. The review covers a topic that has been little studied in Russian addiction science – cannabis use...
Medicina
December 18, 2020
Frederick Travis
Three broad organizing strategies have been used to study meditation practices: (1) consider meditation practices as using similar processes and so combine neural images across a wide range of practices to identify the common underlying brain patterns of meditation practice, (2) consider meditation practices as unique and so investigate individual practices, or (3) consider meditation practices...
Medicina
February 9, 2020
Adam Włodarczyk, Wiesław Jerzy Cubała
22 citations
The current psychopharmacological treatment approaches for major depression focus on monoaminergic interventions, which are ineffective in a large proportion of patients. Globally, treatment-resistant bipolar depression (TRBD) affects up to 33% of depressive patients receiving treatment. Certain needs are still unmet and require new approaches. Many studies are in favor of treatments with...
Medicina
September 28, 2008
Asta Kubilienė, Rūta Marksienė, Saulius Kazlauskas et al.
26 citations
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate acute toxic effect of ibogaine and noribogaine on the survival of mice and determine median lethal doses of the substances mentioned. MATERIAL AND METHODS: White laboratory mice were used for the experiments. Ibogaine and noribogaine were administered intragastrically to mice via a stomach tube. Control animals received the same volume of saline. The median lethal dose...