Here is why cocaine is so addictive

Washington: A small dose of cocaine, taken for fun during one of your get together parties, suddenly becomes an addiction and even before you get to know, it starts controlling your brain.

Here is why cocaine is so addictive. Scientists have found how cocaine corrupts the brain and becomes addictive. These findings are the first to connect activation of specific neurons to alterations in cocaine reward.

Led by Mary Kay Lobo, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and first author of the study, researchers found that the two main neurons (D1 and D2) in the nucleus accumbens region of the brain, an important part of the brain's reward center, exert opposite effects on cocaine reward. Activation of D1 neurons increases cocaine reward whereas activation of D2 neurons decreases cocai
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Highly informative post,Dr. Neetu!It should never ever be tried!
Very informative information which should be understand by most of the youth...they think it cannot become a addiction..but the truth is that it is powerful.. :)
Truly informative information neetu.....
Any kind of addiction is bad only....Hope this is understood by many youth today.....
All it begins with curiousity and it is so lethal that even one try is fraught with addiction!
Youngsters always have a tendency to give a try on anything.It should be avoided,otherwise it will ruin the rest of their life. :(
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