Sunday, April 13, 2008

Can the Brain Be Rebooted to Stop Drug Addiction?

Scientists for the first time have identified long-term changes in mice brains that may shed light on why addicts get hooked on drugs.
Researchers, using fluorescent tracer dye, discovered that mice given methamphetamines for 10 days (roughly equivalent to a human using it for two years) had suppressed activity in a certain area of their brains. Much to their surprise, normal function did not return even when the drug was stopped, but did when they administered a single dose of it again after the mice had been in withdrawal.
Previous research has shown that the drug stimulates nerve cells in the midbrain to release dopamine into the synapses (connections between neurons) in the striatum. Dopamine (which is connected to reward processing, motivation and attention) is one of the brain's primary neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers by which one neuron triggers its neighbor to fire a nerve impulse.
In my opinion drugs are something really addicting.
I think that the peapole doing this are really helping the world because drugs even do you dont take them they afect everyone.

No comments:

Post a Comment