Thursday, 11 October 2012

Friday, 5 October 2012

Yale researchers find small doses of ketamine can offer rapid relief from depression

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The drug ketamine is probably most often associated with its use as an anesthetic in veterinary medicine and its recreational abuse under the name "special K." However, scientists at Yale University have been testing its effects at treating depression for the last decade and have just come to a breakthrough surrounding its potential therapeutic uses. As published in the journal Science , Yale's researchers have found that ketamine can help regenerate synaptic connections between brain cells that have been damaged by depression. The drug works in a completely different way from other, more traditional anti-depressants — while standard drugs may take weeks or months to fully take effect, small doses of ketamine can offer near-immediate...


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Wednesday, 3 October 2012

How To Install and Use ADB, the Android Debug Bridge Utility

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ADB, Android Debug Bridge, is a command-line utility included with Google’s Android SDK. ADB can control your device over USB from a computer, copy files back and forth, install and uninstall apps, run shell commands, and more.


We’ve covered some other tricks that require ADB in the past, including backing up and restoring your smartphone or tablet and installing Android apps to your SD card by default. ADB is used for a variety of geeky Android tricks.


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