Substance Abuse and Addictive Disorders

Individuals are addicted to drugs for many reasons mainly for pleasurable effects. Substances alter mental status, improve performance, relieve boredom, and to self medicate a mental disorder. Addiction is a chronic relapsing and treatable medical condition. It is most prevalent in all mental conditions. Addiction is a disease of the brain and not a judgment …

RNA Techniques

Goals Explain the function of a nucleic acid probe and describe the features that are required for its function.Outline the major steps in Northern blotting, RT-PCR, qPCR, microarray analysis and in situ hybridization. Explain the purpose of these techniques.Apply the above mentioned techniques to experimental questions (and know why to use each one) Measuring Gene …