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."