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January 27, 2010

Treating Depression By Stimulating The Pleasure Center

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Even with the best of available treatments, over a third of patients with depression may not achieve a satisfactory antidepressant response...

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May 30, 2009

Drug-Free Flipping Of The Brain’s Addiction Switch

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When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain's pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry. Researchers investigating this addiction "switch" have now implicated a naturally occurring protein, a dose of which allowed them to get rats hooked with no drugs at all. The research will be published Friday in the journal Science.

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