Human Cocaine and Heroin Addiction Is Found Tied to Impairments in Specific Brain Circuit Initially Implicated in Animals – Neuroscience News
Summary: Greater impairment of the prefrontal cortex-habenula pathway was correlated with earlier age of first drug use. Source: Mount Sinai Hospital White matter in the brain that was previously implicated in animal studies has now been suggested to be specifically impaired in the brains of people with addiction to cocaine or heroin, according to a … Read more