Here is why cocaine is so addictive

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