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Field Trip: An Airport Full of Neuroscientists

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Psychedelics and Addiction - Can You Reroute Your Brain?

Dr. Barbara Sorgh is a senior scientist and a chair of neuroscience at Portland's Legacy Research Institute. She studies co-addicted rats or agents in the prefrontal cortex to disrupt consolidation of the memories associated with cocaine thereby suppressing drug seeking behavior and relapse. Dr. Sorgh says some people just because of their neurobiology predisposed toward addiction are there a part of the brain that houses more memories that are related to addiction? "I see it changing yeah part of this meeting is trying to catch up with the latest technologies"

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