"Study suggests cocaine spurs long-term brain chemistry change" (Forensics Talk)

May 20, 2009

"Study suggests cocaine spurs long-term brain chemistry change"

By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay

"Many remember those fried-egg "this is your brain on drugs" public service announcements. Now, a new study offers insight into how addictive drugs such as cocaine "cook" the brain.

"The study's findings enable us to glimpse for the first time exactly how cocaine modifies the activity of genes in regions of the brain that that mediate reward," explained Nora Volkow, the director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, the organization that supported the study. 'These genes represent promising new targets for the development of medications to treat cocaine addiction,' she said. . . " Read More

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