Unlike non-pharmacological conditioning, which triggers the release of our natural opiates, pharmacologically conditioned biochemical responses are very specific, because the biochemicals triggered are identical to those induced by the active drug.
And the more species there are in a place (in other words, the higher its biodiversity), the better the chance is of finding something pharmacologically useful there.
Dr Levy hopes that one day the two concepts will merge so that people can be treated pharmacologically as the individuals they are.That wish could come true in the case of B-cell lymphoma.
Although drugs such as cannabis are pharmacologically less harmful than alcohol, the fact that they are illegal means that being caught with them poses a particular risk.An anecdote about mephedrone, a synthetic derivative of a compound found in kat, a stimulant drug popular in parts of east Africa, illustrates the problem.
But when they do so, which is likely to be soon, instead of fermenting sugar into alcohol, you will be able to ferment it into morphine and into many other pharmacologically active molecules as well.The path from glucose, biochemistry's common currency, to morphine is a long one.
This is the therapeutic value of the placebo effect, one of the strangest and slipperiest phenomena in medicine.Mind and bodyA placebo is a sham medical treatment a pharmacologically inert sugar pill, perhaps, or a piece of pretend surgery.
Yet the vast majority of cannabis users do not graduate to these more dangerous drugs.Moreover, there is no reliable evidence indicating that taking marijuana pharmacologically disposes people to later use of heroin.
They turned out to be pharmacologically inert.
The heart rate in atrial flutter approximates 300 beats per minute and is difficult to treat pharmacologically.
Patients with atrial flutter are susceptible to marked increases in heart rate with relatively little stimulation unless treated pharmacologically with beta-adrenergic blocking agents, digitalis, or calcium channel blocking agents.
