Saturday, May 30, 2009
Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs
"Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs"
When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain's pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry. Researchers have found a naturally occurring protein that gets rats addicted with no drugs at all.
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