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Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked − altering the neurons that store them could help treat addiction

Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards. This includes eating tasty meals, drinking something refreshing, sexual activity and nurturing children. Many of these behaviors ...

Addiction and appetite along the gut-brain axis: Vagus nerve may play a crucial role in the dopamine reward pathway

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...
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Reelin marks cocaine-activated brain neurons and regulates cocaine reward

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion — 10 to 20 percent — of the neurons in the brain’s nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though small in numbers, ...
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Scientists build a "Rosetta Stone" to decode chronic pain neurons

Researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the Institute of Neurophysiology at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen in Germany have deciphered the molecular signature of so-called ...
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Immune signal in the brain may offer new target for treating meth addiction

Methamphetamine addiction has a way of looping back on itself. A rush of pleasure pulls you in, cravings follow, and the ...
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Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked − altering the neurons that store them could help treat addiction

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ana Clara Bobadilla, Colorado State University (THE CONVERSATION) Everyday human ...