New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a heterogeneous group of substances. They are
associated with a number of health and social harms on an individual and societal level …

According to the EU Early Warning System (EWS), synthetic cathinones (SCs) are the
second largest new psychoactive substances (NPS) class, with 162 synthetic cathinones …

Social recognition, the ability to recognize individuals that were previously encountered,
requires complex integration of sensory inputs with previous experience. Here, we use a …

Cathinone is a plant alkaloid found in khat leaves of perennial shrubs grown in East Africa.
Similar to cocaine, cathinone elicits psychostimulant effects which are in part attributed to its …

Synchronous low-frequency oscillation in the resting human brain has been found to form
networks of functionally associated areas and hence has been widely used to map the …

In 2021, over 100,000 people died prematurely from opioid overdoses. Neuropsychiatric
and cognitive impairments are underreported comorbidities of reward dysregulation due to …

Brain imaging studies indicate that chronic cocaine users display altered functional
connectivity between prefrontal cortical, thalamic, striatal, and limbic regions; however, the …

The current longitudinal study examined factors (sex, physical function, response to novelty,
ability to adapt to a shift in light/dark cycle, brain connectivity), which might predict the …

Increasing reports of neurological and psychiatric complications due to psychostimulant
synthetic cathinones (SCs) have recently raised public concern. However, the precise …

Synthetic drugs contain substances that are pharmacologically similar to those found in
traditional illicit drugs. Some of the most commonly abused synthetic drugs include synthetic …