NCCR-Synapsy

The Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases

Cocaine tampers with the brain’s brakes

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New results from Christian Lüscher and his group show that cocaine not only acts on excitatory transmission but also affects inhibitory transmission provoking loss of an intrinsic brake in the brain. Cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens and the Read more…