Firing a Laser Into Your Brain Could Help Beat a Drug Addiction

Filed under: Drug Addiction

An anonymous reader writes “The prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex in the human brain is thought to play a key role in drug addiction , and researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse wanted to see if manipulating cells there had a positive or negative impact on that addiction . They got some rats addicted to cocaine but not before loading them up with light sensitive proteins …
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