The research comes from scientists at The Rockefeller University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
We began by asking a basic question: how do drugs of abuse interfere with basic needs?
Andpast studieshave found that potentially addictive drugs interact with the nucleus accumbens.
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If you interfere at some level with addictionits the same systems that make us motivated to do things.
So if you shut down the motivation for drugs, thats a challenge right now.
The team plans to keep investigating the brain circuitry and chemistry underlying drug addiction.
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