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New line of research on cocaine addiction
Email: SPIS MedWire - medwire@sciencenow.com News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010601-03
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Cocaine causes long-lasting alterations in brain activity that may prime the brain for addiction. In May 29 Nature Mark Ungless and colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, suggest that these changes occur at the first exposure to the drug. They theorise that cocaine could be hijacking normal brain function to reinforce its effects, mimicking the way the brain forms memories and learns from experience.
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