Drug Addiction, Cocaine, Nicotine, Caffeine, Amphetamines, Opioids, THC & Neuroscience | Christian Luscher | 40
Mind & Matter
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Drug Addiction
Whether or not an animal progresses to a compulsion depends very strongly on what happens in the hours or days after they take that drug. So it is really this idea of the drug leaving a trace behind after it's bein cleared from the brain. That, i think, et was a when we first saw that that we can actually look into the brain by probing the strength of synapses and tell with certainty whether someone has taken cocaine for example. I found that very interesting. When then we realize that this is not only something specific to cocaine, but to all addictive drugs, then we really started working on very intensely. And we went even a step further than using a phamocological agent
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