'Grey Matter' Matters in Addiction Recovery and Relapse – GoodTherapy.org
... Matter' Matters in Addiction Recovery and Relapse – GoodTherapy.org For people with cocaine addiction, risk taking and relapse rates are high. In fact, long-term success rates for abstinence interventions are very low. Experts say that chronic cocaine use… Continue reading
Laser Light Zaps Away Cocaine Addiction
... Light Zaps Away Cocaine Addiction “When we turn on a laser light in the prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex, the compulsive cocaine seeking is gone,” said Antonello Bonci, MD, scientific director of the intramural research program at the… Continue reading
Researchers Turn to Lasers, Asthma Drugs to Combat Drug Addiction
... Turn to Lasers, Asthma Drugs to Combat Drug Addiction In both rats and humans, individuals with cocaine addiction suffer from low activity in the brain's prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for behavioral flexibility, decision making and impulse control. When… Continue reading
Using Lasers to Heal Drug Addiction
... lasers to heal drug addiction Anyone who has ever had a loved one fall into a cocaine addiction would know how gut-wrenching it is to feel powerless against an enemy whose home is inside the user's head. From the… Continue reading
Coked-Up British Bankers Caused the Financial Crisis, Says UK Professor
... Take, for example, reports of brokers allegedly selling cocaine in exchange for insider … Read more on TIME Drug rooms a 'back door' to legalisation, says think-tank They aim to establish contact with difficult-to-reach users, according to the European… Continue reading
Research Provides Clues to Alcohol Addiction Vulnerability
... Provides Clues to Alcohol Addiction Vulnerability … studies and discovered that mice that showed robust locomotor sensitization had deficits in a form of brain neuroplasticity — how experiences reorganize neural pathways in the brain — that has been linked… Continue reading