Discovery Could Yield Treatment for Cocaine Addicts

Discovery Could Yield Treatment for Cocaine Addicts

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"The increased production of these proteins that we found in the animals exposed to drugs was exactly paralleled in a population of human cocaine addicts," he said. "That makes us believe that the further experiments and manipulations we did in the …
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Cocaine Addiction Cure: Study Suggests Laser Light Could Cure Compulsive …

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The National Institute of Health and the University of California, San Francisco released a paper Wednesday revealing that researchers may have discovered a cure for cocaine addiction. In a recent study, researchers found that activating certain parts …
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Rescuing cocaine-induced prefrontal cortex hypoactivity prevents compulsive …

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To investigate the neurobiological dysfunctions that underlie compulsive drug use, we used an animal model of addiction previously shown to engender a subpopulation of rats with compulsive cocaine seeking. …. (1 s duration, 0 to 500 pA, 50 pA steps …
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Lasers that switch cocaine addiction on and off

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Researchers are exploring how laser light can be used on the brain to inhibit addictive behavior — in particular, how you can turn “on and off” cocaine addiction in rats. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Ernest Gallo …
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CU Science Update 28 – Cocaine Addiction – How the brain processes information could help us understand the mechanism behind cocaine addiction. CU’s Institute of Behavioural Genetics is using state-of…

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