'Potential Treatment for Cocaine Addiction'

Published March 18, 2013

'Potential treatment for cocaine addiction'

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The researchers found cocaine causes cells in the nucleus accumbens to boost production of two proteins, one associated with addiction and the other with learning. The proteins have a reciprocal relationship – they increase each other's production and … Read more on Times of India

Cocaine Addiction Treatment? Changing Brain Loop Could Break the Drug Cycle

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Tagscocaine, addiction, addiction treatment. Cocaine addiction treatment could get easier, with the new discovery of a molecular brain process that's triggered by drug use. With more research, that process could be a target for preventing or reversing … Read more on Medical Daily

Cocaine addiction studied through brain activity

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All people from all social classes and ethnicities are vulnerable to the ubiquitous presence of drug addiction. Yet research into a cure gets less than 2 percent of the funding of other, more mainstream diseases like cancer. To make up for this … Read more on The Aggie