What is the role of social factors in
the formation of drug addiction?
Not exact matches
They focused on the striatum, a brain region implicated in
drug addiction because
of its central role in habit
formation and goal - directed behavior.
Today's studies, presented at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting
of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source
of emerging news about brain science and health, provide new insights into how experience might produce long - term brain changes in behaviors like
drug addiction and memory
formation.
Opiate
addiction is largely controlled by the
formation of powerful reward memories that link the pleasurable effects
of opiate - class
drugs to environmental triggers that induce
drug craving in individuals addicted to opiates.