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FeaturedPsychology
·June 17, 2016·5 min read

‘Carrots and Sticks’ Fail to Change Behavior in Cocaine Addiction

A new study might help to explain why people continue to take drug, even though they are aware of the negative consequences and why they find their behavior so hard to change.
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·January 22, 2019·4 min read

Erasing Memories Associated with Cocaine Use Reduces Drug Seeking Behavior

Disrupting memories associated with environmental cues significantly reduces cocaine seeking behaviors in rat models of addiction, a new study reports.
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·May 10, 2013·5 min read

Cocaine Vaccine Passes Key Testing Hurdle

Researchers have successfully tested a new vaccine in primates to battle cocaine addiction. Using neuroimaging techniques, they demonstrated the vaccine prevents cocaine from reaching the brain and producing a dopamine induced high. Human trials could begin within the next year.
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·January 8, 2019·3 min read

Neural Fingerprints ID Those Likely to Abstain from Cocaine

Using deep learning technology in combination with neuroimaging data, researchers were able to accurately predict who would abstain from cocaine during treatment for addiction.
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FeaturedPsychology
·June 18, 2015·3 min read

Neural Pathway Provides New Insight into Cocaine Addiction

Manipulating the activity of Activin receptors could decrease relapse behaviors in cocaine addiction, a new study suggests.
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FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscience
·September 17, 2018·5 min read

Gene Therapy Via Skin Protects Mice From Lethal Cocaine Doses

Using CRISPR gene editing techniques, researchers create modified skin grafts that rapidly degrade cocaine and reduce drug seeking behaviors in mouse models of addiction.
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·October 17, 2020·3 min read

Astrocytes Build Synapses After Cocaine Use

Astrocytes respond to cocaine exposure in the brains of mice by promoting the formation of new synapses.
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FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
·September 11, 2017·6 min read

Cocaine Users’ Brains Unable to Extinguish Drug Associations

A new study reveals chronic cocaine users have a global impairment of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
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FeaturedGenetics
·August 1, 2013·3 min read

New Insight into How the Brain ‘Learns’ Cocaine Addiction

Researchers discover the role protein mGluR5 plays in cocaine addiction. The finding could help point a way to new treatments for addiction.
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·June 28, 2022·5 min read

New Brain Mechanism Involved in Impulsive Cocaine-Seeking in Rats Discovered

Blocking M2Rs muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the lateral habenula with an experimental drug increased cocaine-seeking behaviors in rat models of impulsive behaviors.
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FeaturedGenetics
·July 13, 2018·3 min read

Maged1 Gene Protects Against Cocaine Addiction

A new study reports mice lacking the Maged1 gene are unable to acquire an addiction to cocaine.
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FeaturedNeuroscience
·June 27, 2017·5 min read

Reprogramming Brain Region Can Suppress Cocaine Cravings: Mouse Study

Silencing pyramidal neurons in the infralimbic cortex made rats more likely to relapse than those that underwent withdrawal from cocaine. The findings support growing evidence that the infralimbic cortex plays a vital role in suppressing addictive behaviors.
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