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Reward-Stress Link Points To New Targets For Treating Addiction
December 16, 2008 — Investigators have discovered a functional link between reward and stress. They found that dopamine -- the brain's chief reward signal -- works through corticotrophin-releasing factor -- the brain's ... > full story -
Drug-Related Preference In Cocaine Addiction Extends To Images
November 16, 2008 — When given a choice between viewing pictures of cocaine and a variety of other images, cocaine addicted individuals, as compared to healthy, non-addicted research subjects, show a clear preference ... > full story -
Drug Addiction: Environmental Conditions Play Major Role In Effective Treatment And Preventing Relapses, Animal Study Shows
November 14, 2008 — Environmental conditions play a major role in treating drug addiction and in preventing relapses, according to new research. For the first time, researchers have shown that positive and stimulating ... > full story -
Methamphetamine Enters Brain Quickly And Lingers
October 14, 2008 — Using positron emission tomography to track tracer doses of methamphetamine in humans' brains, scientists find that the addictive and long-lasting effects of this increasingly prevalent drug can be ... > full story -
Thinner Cortex In Cocaine Addicts May Reflect Drug Use And A Pre-Existing Disposition To Drug Abuse
October 8, 2008 — New research findings suggest that structural abnormalities in the brains of cocaine addicts are related in part to drug use and in part to a predisposition toward addiction. The research maps the ... > full story -
Neuropeptide Y System Linked To More Severe Form Of Alcohol Dependence
September 23, 2008 — Prior animal research showed an association between the neuropeptide Y (NPY) pathway and its three receptor genes and alcohol dependence, alcohol withdrawal and cocaine use. New human findings link ... > full story -
Potential New Drug For Cocaine Addiction And Overdose
September 15, 2008 — Chemists are reporting development of what they term the most powerful substance ever discovered for eliminating cocaine from the body, an advance that could lead to the world's first effective ... > full story -
Cocaine-Induced Brain Plasticity May Protect The Addicted Brain: Findings May Lead To New Drug-Abuse Treatments
August 27, 2008 — Increased connections among brain cells caused by excessive drug use may represent the body's defense mechanism to combat addiction and related behaviors, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center ... > full story -
New Evidence On Addiction To Medicines: Diazepam Has Effect On Nerve Cells In The Brain Reward System
August 27, 2008 — Addictions to medicines and drugs are thought to develop over a relatively long period of time. The process involves both structural and functional changes in brain nerve cells that are still poorly ... > full story -
Addiction Treatment Proves Successful In Animal Weight Loss Study
August 20, 2008 — Vigabatrin, a medication proposed as a potential treatment for drug addiction, also leads to rapid weight loss and reduced food intake according to a new animal study from the same research group. ... > full story
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