Drug-related preference in cocaine addiction extends to images
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 10:56
in Psychology & Sociology
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 for the drug-related images. Findings from this study, which was conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, was presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington D.C. on Sunday, 16 November, by Scott Moeller, a psychology graduate student at the University of Michigan who worked with the Brookhaven Lab Neuropsychoimaging group (director, Rita Goldstein) on this research...