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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Recreational Drugs Sold As Bath Salts Causing Serious Public Health Concern, USA Hospitals throughout the USA are having to cope with a growing number of people coming in high on bath salts, which can be used as recreational drugs. These substances can be smoked, injected or snorted and may have dangerous long-term harmful effects.	17 July 2011
Binge Drinking Damages Teenage Girls' Brains More Than Boys' Teenage girls who binge-drink have a higher risk of long-term harm to the brain compared to boys of the same age who also binge drink, researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University reported in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.	17 July 2011
Crack Cocaine Use May Be Predicted By Current, Not Prior, Depression Even after accounting for current crack use, a new study finds that women in drug court who are experiencing current major depression are more likely to use crack within four months than other women in drug court.	17 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Retinal Imaging And Frequency Of Falls May Point To Early Alzheimer's Individuals with Alzheimer's disease are much more likely to suffer falls compared to other individuals, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis explained at the AAIC 2011 (Alzheimer's Association® International Conference).	17 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Computational Models And Algorithms Cast Fresh Light On Terrorism In India Recent advances in computer science at the University of Maryland's Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics cast fresh light on terrorism in India, such as the coordinated attacks in Mumbai.	17 July 2011
Grant To Create Mind-Machine Interface The National Science Foundation has announced an $18.5 million grant to establish an Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering based at the University of Washington."The center will work on robotic devices that interact with, assist and understand the nervous system," said director Yoky Matsuoka, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering.	17 July 2011

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