Cocaine Addiction How It Affects the Brain

What Is Cocaine?
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Addiction Treatment Parts 1,2,3
Brain Regions and Their Functions The Brain and Addiction: Neurotransmitters affect emotions and memory Neurotransmitters affect emotions and memory Dopamine—reuptake affected by cocaine, which blocks dopamine synapse Depletion following cocaine use. Nicotine affects dopamine too. … Doc Viewer

NIDA ADDICTION RESEARCH NEWS
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Effects Series – Cocaine
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Cocaine Abuse
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Exploring The New Science Of Addiction
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The Neuropharmacology Of Drugs Of Abuse
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Synapses And Drugs
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Brain Regions and Their Functions The Brain and Addiction Neurotransmitters affect emotions and memory Neurotransmitters Affect Emotions and Memory Depletion following cocaine use. Nicotine affects dopamine too. … View Doc

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Cocaine
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Chronic cocaine differentially affects diazepam’s anxiolytic and However, there are multiple lines of evidence [15,8] cocaine addiction increases 148 S.M.Lilly,E.I.Tietz / Brain Research 882 (2000) 139–148 active cocaine-abusing subjects: A PET study, Am. J … Read Document

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