Cocaine 'Rapidly Changes the Brain'

Published August 26, 2013

Cocaine 'rapidly changes the brain'
Taking cocaine can change the structure of the brain within hours in what could be the first steps of drug addiction, according to US researchers. drug addiction – Yahoo! News Search Results

How the brain remembers pleasure: Implications for addiction
Key details of the way nerve cells in the brain remember pleasure are revealed in a new study. The molecular events that form such "reward memories" appear to differ from those created by drug addiction, despite the popular theory that addiction hijacks normal reward pathways. drug addiction – Yahoo! News Search Results

Implications for Addiction, How the Brain Remembers Pleasure
The molecular events that form such “reward memories” appear to differ from those created by drug addiction, despite the popular theory that addiction hijacks normal reward pathways. drug addiction – Yahoo! News Search Results