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Article: Cocaine exposure during pregnancy leads to impulsivity in male, not female, monkeys.
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- November 15, 2009
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Adult male monkeys exposed to cocaine while in the womb have poor impulse control and may be more vulnerable to drug abuse than female monkeys, even a decade or more after the exposure, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The findings could lead to a better understanding of human drug abuse.
The study was presented yesterday at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago.
"This is the first time that so many different measures of impulsivity, which is considered a risk factor for drug abuse, have been looked at in the same group of animals," said Lindsey Hamilton, lead investigator and a ...