Addiction: a loss of plasticity of the brain?

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 14:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Why is it that only some drug users become addicts?Researchers have just discovered that the transition to addiction could result from a persistent impairment of synaptic plasticity in a key structure of the brain.

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