| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Kokain
Cocaine users' brains unable to extinguish drug associations
Cocaine-addicted individuals say they find the drug much less enjoyable after years of use, but they have great difficulty quitting. A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals why this might be so, as well as why a common psychological therapy may not work in addicted cocaine users. (The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 11.09.2017)
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/tmsh-cu091117.php