With millions struggling with cocaine use, the lack of medical treatments remains a public health crisis. A recent study at Michigan State University identified a specific protein that acts as a ...
Relapse is a common feature of addiction recovery – two in three patients treated for substance use disorder in the United States relapse within 12 months, according to the Journal of the American ...
White matter in the brain that was previously implicated in animal studies has now been suggested to be specifically impaired in the brains of people with addiction to cocaine or heroin, according to ...
Neurons in a specific brain circuit regulating mood are stained in green, and the transcription factor DeltaFosB, found in some of these circuit neurons, is labeled in red. When a cocaine addict ...
New research finds that drug withdrawal-induced anxiety and reinstatement of drug seeking behaviors are controlled by a single pathway in the brain and centered around dopamine cells. New research ...
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Combining alcohol with cocaine rewires the brain’s relapse pathways differently than cocaine alone
A recent study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology provides evidence that using cocaine and alcohol together ...
Why do so many people relapse after quitting cocaine? A new study from The Hebrew University reveals that a specific "anti-reward" brain circuit becomes hyperactive during withdrawal—driving ...
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