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Addiction Medicine
Recent studies from University of California, Neuroscience Research Institute add new data to addiction medicine
March 9th, 2008
Current study results from the report, 'Homers regulate drug-induced neuroplasticity: implications for addiction,' have been published. According to a study from the United States, "Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder, characterized by an uncontrollable motivation to seek and use drugs. Converging clinical and preclinical observations implicate pathologies within the corticolimbic glutamate system in the genetic predisposition to, and the development of, an addicted phenotype." "Such observations pose cellular factors regulating glutamate transmission as likely molecular candidates in the etiology of addiction. Members of the Homer family of proteins...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-03-09)
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