Neurotrophins (NTs) as nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor
(BDNF) play multiple roles in different settings including neuronal development, function and …

Head and neck cancer (HNC) concerns more than 890,000 patients worldwide annually and
is associated with the advanced stage at presentation and heavy outcomes. Alcohol …

Both physiological and pathological aging processes induce brain alterations especially
affecting the speed of processing, working memory, conceptual reasoning and executive …

Alcohol is a legal and yet detrimental psychoactive substance, capable of establishing
addiction and impacting the physical, mental, social, and economic health of people. Alcohol …

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a set of conditions resulting from prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE). FASD is estimated to affect between 2% and 5% of people in the United …

Background: Twelve separate streams of empirical data make a strong case for cannabis-
induced accelerated aging including hormonal, mitochondriopathic, cardiovascular …

Genetic features of alcohol dependence have been extensively investigated in recent years.
A large body of studies has underlined the important role of genetic variants not only in …

While education about fertility is not intrinsically controversial, finding the right language to
communicate the topic can be challenging, as there are several risks of unintended negative …

DNA methylation, the main epigenetic modification regulating gene expression, plays a role
in the pathophysiology of neurodegeneration. Previous evidence indicates that 5′-flanking …

Introduction: Recent series of congenital anomaly (CA) rates (CARs) have showed the close
and epidemiologically causal relationship of cannabis exposure to many CARs. We …