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Addiction Medicine
Repeated methamphetamine use causes long-term adaptations in brains of mice, researchers find
April 27th, 2008
Repeatedly stimulating the mouse brain with methamphetamine depresses important areas of the brain, and those changes can only be undone by re-introducing the drug, according to research at the University of Washington and other institutions. The study, which appears in the April 10 issue of the journal Neuron, provides one of the most in-depth views of the mechanisms of methamphetamine addiction, and suggests that withdrawal from the drug may not undo the changes the stimulant can cause in the brain. The researchers set out to determine what sort of changes happen in the brain because of repeated use of the stimulant methamphetamine, and to better understand...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-04-27)
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