Cocaine Addiction Linked To Voluntary Drug Use And Cellular Memory, Study Shows
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 20:28
in Psychology & Sociology
New research has uncovered a fundamental cellular mechanism that may drive pathological drug-seeking behavior. Rats that voluntarily use cocaine show a persistent cellular memory in the brain's reward center even after several months of abstinence from the drug, while their involuntary counterparts had no such memory, according to a new study.