Increasing neurogenesis might prevent drug addiction and relapse
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 07:42
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre hope they have begun paving a new pathway in the fight against drug dependence. Their hypothesis - that increasing the normally occurring process of making nerve cells might prevent addiction - is based on a rodent study demonstrating that blocking new growth of specific brain nerve cells increases vulnerability for cocaine addiction and relapse...