Learning addiction: Dopamine reinforces drug-associated memories
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 07:14
in Psychology & Sociology
New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published by Cell Press in the 10 September issue of the journal Neuron, helps to explain why and how drug-associated memories, such as the place of drug use, drive and perpetuate the addiction...
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