The yin and yang of overcoming cocaine addiction

Friday, September 5, 2014 - 00:30 in Biology & Nature

Biology, by nature, has a yin and a yang -- a push and a pull. Addiction, particularly relapse, researchers find, is no exception. A new paper is the first to establish the existence of a brain circuitry that resists a relapse of cocaine use through a naturally occurring neural remodeling with "silent synapses."

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