Cocaine addiction: Impact of genetic mutations elucidated
Cocaine addiction is a chronic disorder with a high rate of relapse for which no effective treatment is currently available.
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Opioid crisis helps explain rise in cocaine deaths: report
Cocaine deaths have been rising in the U.S., health officials said Thursday in their latest report on the nation’s overdose
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AHA: Marijuana, Cocaine May Play Role in Young Americans’ Rising Stroke Rate
MONDAY, Feb. 4, 2019 (American Heart Association) — The vast majority of strokes occur in people over 65, but the
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Cocaine addiction traced to increase in number of orexin neurons
A study in cocaine-addicted rats reports long-lasting increases in the number of neurons that produce orexin — a chemical messenger
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Cocaine relapse is reversed with BDNF microinjections in the brain
Cocaine relapse was significantly reduced in a preclinical model when brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) was applied to the nucleus accumbens
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Childhood adversity increases susceptibility to addiction via immune response
Childhood adversity permanently alters the peripheral and central immune systems, increasing the sensitivity of the body’s immune response to cocaine,
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