Wednesday 19 November 2014

Alternate Neurons Play Lead Role in Nicotine Addiction

Researchers have believed for ages that drug addiction was the outcome of the reward system and stress system, both being separate systems of the brain. The reward system gets activated on using drugs and the stress system stimulated at withdrawal. Now scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that these two systems are actually linked. Their findings, published November 17 in the journal iNature Neuroscience/i, show that in the core of ...

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