Why does cocaine not away the desire?

People have used cocaine run a great risk addicted after long drug - free periods. Now researchers at the University of Linköping and his colleagues on a specific molecule can show in the brain as a potential target for the treatment of relapses.

Drugs are addictive because you "hijack" the brain to eat really nice reward system to sexual intercourse, have behaviors that are necessary for the survival and reproduction do intend.

This "piracy" it is extremely long service life and leads often to abuse, relapse, especially when the person to stimuli in the vicinity is exposed them.in show linked an article in the journal Neuroscience can the research team with drugs, now that a recipient for the glutamate substance signal (mGluR5), in a part of the brain called plays the rifling, an important role in relapse.

Led by David Engblom, Associate Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Linköping in Sweden, looks from carried out what, in people, the lack of glutamate receptors.Experiments, happens in mice that were taught to eat cocaine.

"Our results show, that mice missing recipients were less susceptible to the reincidencia.Esto is due to the fact that its response to the reward list a requirement on your memories in the same way as in mice receiving normales.El seems had with for environments which were previously drug use or something be more rewarding connected to create a whim or objects", said David Engblom.

He hopes that these results and other mechanisms drug addiction can cause studies forms of treatment based going on what wrong, in the brain of an addict.

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