When a cocaine addict relapses, it isn't a matter of personal failure—it's the biological result of their brain's rewiring, ...

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

Scientists identify the protein DeltaFosB as the "master switch" that rewires the brain's memory and reward circuits, driving chronic cocaine addiction and relapse.

When a cocaine addict relapses, it isn't a matter of personal failure — it's the biological result of their brain's rewiring, new research ...

Researchers discovered a protein that acts as a molecular switch driving cocaine addiction by altering gene activity in a brain reward circuit. The protein regulates calreticulin, which dampens neuron ...

Scientists found that cocaine changes how the hippocampus region of the brain functions. The post This is your brain on cocaine appeared first on Talker.

Days before allegedly killing five people inside a Langside Street crack house, Jamie Felix suffered a drug relapse that ...