CU Science Update 28 – Cocaine Addiction
CU Science Update 28 – Cocaine Addiction – How the brain processes information could help us understand the mechanism behind cocaine addiction. CU’s Institute of Behavioural Genetics is using state-of-the-art technology to gain insight into how psychostimulant drugs alter our brains. The results of this work could one day help addicts recover fully from their dependency on drugs. CU Science Update’s Angelica Kalika met with Dr. Don Cooper, Associate Professor in CU’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience to learn more about his lab’s investigation into cocaine addiction. Hosted by Joanna Merrill. Produced by the University of Colorado at Boulder Journalism and Mass Communication students.
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Sporadic cocaine users tend to have a larger frontal lobe, a region associated with self-control, while cocaine addicts are more likely to have small frontal lobes, according to the study, which was published in the journal Biological Psychiatry …
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Charlie Wilson Wants to Save Artists From 'Crash & Burn' Lifestyle, Talks …
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Councilwoman Inez Dickens commended him for his commitment to being a leader in the fight against two illnesses he has overcome: drug addiction and prostate cancer. Three days prior, he received a Lifetime … “I loved cocaine,” he admits. “I was …
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Brain shape determines your cocaine addiction
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LONDON: People who take cocaine over a long period of time without becoming addicted have their brain shape to thank, a new Cambridge University study has found. Researchers have found recreational drug users who do not develop a dependence have …
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Hollyoaks: Daniella Westbrook was scared to join show as ex-con Trudy!
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Since then the actress, who admitted on a Christmas special of the ITV chat show Jeremy Kyle that she had continued her cocaine addiction throughout both of her pregnancies, even snorting a line of the deadly drug whilst in labour with her now teenage …
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