A recent study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology provides evidence that using cocaine and alcohol together ...

North Texas researchers identify gene changes in brain reward circuits that may point to new treatments for those struggling ...

Neurons in a specific brain circuit regulating mood are stained in green, and the transcription factor DeltaFosB, found in some of these circuit neurons, is labeled in red. When a cocaine addict ...

Cocaine rewires the brain of former addicts to trigger a relapse, according to new research. The breakthrough might lead to better treatments for drug addiction, say scientists. The study suggests ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion — 10 to 20 percent — of the neurons in the brain’s nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though ...

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion - 10 to 20 percent - of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though small in numbers, ...

Researchers at UC San Diego are working to learn why there are individual differences in drug addiction behaviors. Photo credit: Alina Grubnyak/Unsplash via https://today.ucsd.edu/ Researchers at the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - New research is now out on fighting addiction. It could help treat substance abuse by directly targeting a certain area of the brain. This research disrupts the traditional theory ...

You no doubt know that it eats holes in your nose and can cause heart attacks, but the latest research reports that cocaine abuse also shrinks the brain. K.D. Ersche and colleagues at Cambridge ...

It’s hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave. Now, a study published in the Jan. 8 issue of Science shows how it also alters the way the genes in your ...