Researchers led by 2017 BBRF Young Investigator Kevin T. Beier, Ph.D., have discovered a way to predict individual behavioral responses to cocaine in mice never exposed to the drug, and have also…
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Researchers have identified a robust functional connectivity brain signature that can accurately characterize neural circuit abnormalities in cocaine use disorder (CUD). The signature can, in turn,…
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The urgency of opioid abuse and its status as a public health crisis are subjects frequently noted in public discussions and media reports. Cocaine addiction and its impact on public health, while by…
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In the past several decades, the field of addiction research has been revolutionized by new findings about the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in affecting the brain’s reward pathways. For…
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Although new knowledge about the brain’s reward circuitry has provided insight into the biology of addiction, this has not yet resulted in new treatments. In animal models of addiction, it has been…
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