Jax Taylor has revealed his addiction to cocaine while celebrating more than 80 days of sobriety. “This is tough to say. … I’m an addict. I have substance issues, primarily with cocaine. Oh, that’s ...

Rutgers researchers have used neuroimaging to demonstrate that cocaine addiction alters the brain’s system for evaluating how rewarding various outcomes associated ...

Researchers carrying out functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in different areas of the human brain have discovered how cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how ...

Study: Molecular and circuit determinants in the globus pallidus mediating control of cocaine-induced behavioral plasticity. Image Credit: Alex Mit / Shutterstock.com Ventral tegmental area dopamine ...

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 ...

UC San Diego School of Medicine and Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers have created an atlas of the amygdala, a structure within the brain that plays a crucial role in controlling ...

HHMI researchers find a molecular target of cocaine in fruit flies. Researchers have identified a protein in the nervous system of fruit flies that is a cousin of the molecule that cocaine targets in ...

Rutgers researchers have used neuroimaging to demonstrate that cocaine addiction alters the brain's system for evaluating how rewarding various outcomes associated ...