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Article: ADDICTIVE SITE IN BRAIN DISCOVERED BY SCIENTISTS.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 13, 1996
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Byline: DANIEL GOLEMAN New York Times
For the first time, some neuroscientists have captured images of the brains of addicts in the throes of craving for a drug, revealing the neural basis for addiction.
The finding caps a decade or more of intensive brain research seeking the grail of substance abuse, the neurological circuitry that compels addicts to pursue the next fix.
No matter what the addictive substance is -- amphetamines, heroin, alcohol or nicotine -- all seem to activate a single circuit for pleasure deep in the most ancient part of the brain. This circuit, for the neurotransmitter dopamine, is the site of the high that addictive ...