Cure Research for Addiction
Cure Research list for Addiction:
The list of research areas and treatments under analysis mentioned
in various sources for Addiction
includes:
Rare Types of Addiction:
Some rare types of Addiction include:
Latest Treatments for Addiction
Some of the more recent treatments for Addiction include:
Treatments for Addiction
Treatments to consider for Addiction may include:
Medical Research Breakthroughs and Addiction
How addiction works...??: For the first time researchers have found
why the craving of addiction is so stubborn and long-lived.
In their experiments, the researchers treated mice with methamphetamine and
studied the mechanism of how prolonged exposure to the drug affected
levels of the brain chemical dopamine. The study was concentrated on the
dopamine machinery in the brain's corticostriatal region, which was
believed to harbour the "habit" circuitry which was mainly
responsible to the compulsive drug-seeking addiction to methamphetamine and
amphetamine.
The studies revealed that
prolonged administration of the drug to the animals cause chronic effects, a
depression of the synaptic dopamine machinery in the corticostriatal region
that lasted for months even after the drug was withdrawn. However, giving the
animals a dose of methamphetamine reversed the depressive effects on the
synaptic machinery.
The experiments also revealed detailed mechanism of long-term effects of the
drug, which was by altering specific types of receptors for dopamine and
another neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. The effects of the drug also might
disrupt the normal machinery for learning in the brain, leading to aberrant
reward processing and action selection.
The discovered mechanism they might provide a synaptic basis that underlies
addiction and habit learning and their long-term maintenance.
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