Area in brain could be key to addiction
From Times Wire Reports
identified a region of the brain that plays an important role in drug craving and could be a target for treating addiction.
Tests on amphetamine- addicted laboratory rats showed that during the period that the insular cortex was deactivated with an injected drug, the rats showed no sign of addiction, according to research published Friday in the journal Science.
They said that when the area was reactivated, the rats again craved amphetamines.
