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Cocaine Addiction: Chronic Cocaine Use Triggers Changes in Brain’s Neuron Structure – UB News Center

Cocaine Addiction: Chronic Cocaine Use Triggers Changes in Brain’s Neuron Structure – UB News Center


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Chronic Cocaine Use Triggers Changes in Brain's Neuron Structure
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The research, led by UB's Dietz, suggests a potential new target for development of a treatment for cocaine addiction. Buffalo, NY — Chronic exposure to cocaine reduces the expression of a protein known to regulate brain plasticity, according to new,
Chronic Cocaine Use Rewires the BrainPsychCentral.com
Chronic cocaine use triggers structural changes in brainZee News
Cocaine alters brain to magnify rewardFuturity: Research News

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Cocaine Addiction: Make-up sex is ‘addictive’ – iAfrica.com

Make-up sex is 'addictive'
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Well, it could be thanks to an unlikely addiction… to make-up sex. That moment when a heated argument turns into passionate lovemaking might be as addictive as cocaine says Seth Meyers, a clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles, USA.

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Antidote for Cocaine Overdose Shows Promise – NPR News

Cocaine Overdose: Antidote For Cocaine Overdose Shows Promise – NPR News
Reporting in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics, researchers write that they’ve developed a antidote that reverses dangerous symptoms of a cocaine overdose in mice. Study co-author Kim Janda discusses how the vaccine, made from artificially …
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Cocaine Overdose: Antidote for cocaine overdose works in mice – La Jolla
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have developed an injectable treatment that can protect mice from an otherwise lethal dose of cocaine. The findings could lead to human clinical trials of a ready-made solution of antibodies …
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Cocaine Overdose: April 26 – 1984: David Anthony Kennedy, 28, dies of apparent cocaine overdose; 2005: Department of Defense closes Otis Air Force Base – Cape Cod Today
On this day in 2005 the U.S. Department of Defense changed its mind about base closings, and that was the end of Otis NG as an air base. The largest New England facilities saved by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) were the …
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Cocaine Effects: Antidote for Cocaine Overdose Shows Promise – NPR News

Cocaine Effects: Antidote For Cocaine Overdose Shows Promise – NPR News
IRA FLATOW, HOST: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I’m Ira Flatow. Stroke, kidney failure, seizures are some of the devastating effects of a cocaine overdose that kill thousands of people each year. But new research has created hope that a cocaine …
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Cocaine Effects: Chronic Cocaine Use Rewires the Brain – Psych Centra
The presence of the spines demonstrates the spike in the reward effect that the user obtains from cocaine, he said. By changing the level of expression of Rac1, Dietz and his colleagues were able to control whether the mice became addicted …
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Promising Antidote for Cocaine Overdose in the Works – CBS News

Cocaine Overdose: Promising antidote for cocaine overdose in the works – CBS News
(CBS News) There may be an antidote for cocaine overdoses just a few human trials away. Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego have created an injectable solution that has reversed the effects of what would have been a fatal …
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Cocaine Overdose: Antidote For Cocaine Overdose Shows Promise – NPR News
Reporting in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics, researchers write that they’ve developed a antidote that reverses dangerous symptoms of a cocaine overdose in mice. Study co-author Kim Janda discusses how the vaccine, made from artificially …
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Cocaine Overdose: Cocaine overdose, not shocks from Taser, killed Aurora man – Chicago Sun-Times
The death of an Aurora man who was Tasered by police last month has been attributed to a cocaine overdose. On Friday, Aurora police said an autopsy revealed that 37-year-old Jersey Green Jr. died after suffering a seizure in the back of an ambulance on …
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Cracking Into Addiction: Cocaine Abuse Accelerates Aging of Brain, Says Study – RTT News

Cocaine Addiction: Cracking Into Addiction: Cocaine Abuse Accelerates Aging Of Brain, Says Study – RTT News


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Cracking Into Addiction: Cocaine Abuse Accelerates Aging Of Brain, Says Study
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that cocaine is used by up to 21 million individuals worldwide, with about 1 per cent of these individuals becoming addicted. Cocaine, which is a purified extract from the leaves of coca plant,
Cocaine eats up brain twice as fast as normal agingFox News
Cocaine Rots Your Brain: Seriously, Heavy Users Lose More Gray MatterThe Atlantic
Cocaine Brain? Cognitive Decline Tied To Chronic Use Of Illicit DrugHuffington Post
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Cocaine Addiction – Google News

Cocaine Addiction: Binge eating may lead to addiction-like behaviors – Penn State Live

Cocaine Overdose ‘antidote’ in the Future? – Fox News

Cocaine Effects: Cocaine overdose ‘antidote’ in the future? – Fox News


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Cocaine overdose 'antidote' in the future?
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But now, a cocaine “antidote” could soon be available for emergency scenarios. Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Cali., have come up with an injectable solution that has been shown to reverse the effects of cocaine overdose in
Antidote for Cocaine Overdose Looks Promising in Lab StudiesScience Daily (press release)
San Diego researchers pursue potential cocaine overdose treatmentLos Angeles Times
Potential Antidote for Cocaine Overdose DevelopedMedical Daily
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Cocaine Effects – Google News

Cocaine Effects: Scientists Identify Potential Target for Treating Cocaine Addiction – Genetic Engineering News

Scientists Identify Potential Target for Treating Cocaine Addiction
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Encouragingly, transiently increasing levels of Rac1 blocked the addiction-causing effects of repeated cocaine use and the accompanying neural changes. Reporting their findings in Nature Neuroscience, Eric J. Nestler and colleagues suggest their

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