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Flipping the brain’s addiction switch without drugs

Posted on 31. May, 2009 by admin.

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When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain’s pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.
Researchers investigating this addiction “switch” have now implicated a naturally occurring protein, a dose of which allowed them to get rats hooked with no drugs at all.

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Genetic make-up influences biased economic decision-making, study shows

Posted on 08. May, 2009 by admin.

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How would you respond if you were told that you had an 80% chance of surviving an operation – would you give consent? How about if you were told you had a 20% chance of dying? The answer may partly depend on your genetic make-up, according to new research from UCL (University College London) and [...]

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