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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Drug-Free Flipping Of The Brain’s Addiction Switch
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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