HBNS.org - Parents who have regular meals with their adolescent children - especially girls - might help lessen the chances they will start drinking or smoking later in their teen years, according to new research.
Past studies have shown that family meals provide many benefits, including offering a venue for parents to communicate with their adolescents [...]

MUSC.edu - Individuals with alcohol dependence are offered hope through a recent study of Topamax (topiramate ) by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina.
In a landmark study, MUSC researchers working with investigators at the University of Virginia Health System and elsewhere have found that topiramate, an FDA-approved medication, not only decreases heavy drinking, [...]

AAN.com - Mild Alzheimer’s disease patients with higher physical fitness had larger brains compared to mild Alzheimer’s patients with lower physical fitness, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008 issue of Neurology ®.
For the study, 121 people age 60 and older underwent exercise fitness tests using a treadmill as well as brain [...]

Harvard.edu - Heavy alcohol use, or binge drinking , among college students in the United States is tied to conditions in the college environment. That is one of the key findings from research conducted by researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS), a landmark 14-year study that surveyed more than [...]

Research by a Davidson College neuroscientist and students demonstrates that the benefits of regular exercise include a lowered tendency to become addicted to illegal drugs, and they suspect the exercise benefit may be from increasing release of dopamine in the brain.
The online version of the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence published this week the results [...]

Rochester.edu - Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists have found. The new findings shed light on a long-debated question regarding the risks of statins with regard to dementia - a risk which could be magnified in patients on [...]