Sentences with phrase «cocaine craving»

[T] he fMRI results of the study show that looking at a romantic rejecter and cocaine craving have several neural correlates in common.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of cocaine craving.

The Johns Hopkins Medicine neuroscientists who conducted the research say that the compound — previously shown to block cocaine craving in the brains of rodents — delivers antidepressant effects to mice within hours instead of weeks or months, like currently available antidepressants.

Neuroscientists say that a compound — previously shown to block cocaine craving in the brains of rodents — delivers antidepressant effects to mice within hours instead of weeks or months, like currently available antidepressants.

Indeed, by examining brain tissue and slices from the cocaine - addicted rats at various stages of withdrawal and craving, Wolf and her colleagues discovered that the incubation period and the subsequent spike in craving appeared to correlate with the appearance of atypical AMPA receptors on the surface of neurons in the NAc, which could help explain cocaine craving.

«The next step is to increase our sample size, and to examine the effects of isradipine on cocaine craving,» DeMet adds.

Not exact matches

After introducing the cadherin - laden mice to cocaine multiple times, experts expected the rodents to crave the drug.

It turns out that if someone is actively craving cocaine, or if you expose an addict to stimuli that remind the addict of cocaine and activate the craving, what you are doing is increasing activity in an area of the prefrontal cortex called the orbitofrontal cortex.

In animal studies this sharply reduces cravings and halts addicted animals» tendency to self - administer cocaine and other habit - forming drugs.

Finally, convalescing in Paris in 2001 (where he went to be close to his parents and relatives), he read about a study of a muscle relaxant that had stifled the cravings of a cocaine addict.

Researchers have found that in the brains of cocaine - addicted rats, their craving actually increased over time.

The experimental therapy, which involves administering a drug currently used in cancer therapy trials, treats cocaine addiction by inhibiting memories responsible for cravings.

«In rats that have taken a lot of cocaine, craving becomes stronger rather than weaker as the withdrawal period gets longer,» Wolf says.

«Further studies will show whether the prevention of these early brain responses is associated with reduced rates of craving and relapse in cocaine - dependent patients,» added Childress.

«The study was inspired by patients who had experienced moments of «volcanic craving», being suddenly overcome by the extreme desire for cocaine, but without a trigger that they could put their finger on,» says senior author Anna Rose Childress, PhD, research professor of Psychiatry, director of the Brain - Behavioral Vulnerabilities Division in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior studies show that exposure to both cues and stress can have an additive effect on the propensity to cause craving and relapse in both people and in rats, and that females trained to respond for cocaine may be more sensitive to this effect.

They found that gratification genes had been activated — the same genes that are active in cocaine and heroin addicts when their craving has been satisfied.

Ice cream and other tasty, high - calorie foods would seem to have little in common with cocaine, but in some people's brains they can elicit cravings and trigger responses similar to those caused by addictive drugs, a new study suggests.

In addition, researchers have found that areas of the brain associated with drug cravings (e.g., cocaine) were also activated in participants after they viewed photographs of their lost loves.