Drug-Craving Brain Region In Rats Discovered By Chilean Researchers / Medical News Today, 26 October 2007
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/86803.php
"Chilean researchers have identified a region of the brain - the insular cortex - that plays a role in drug craving in amphetamine-addicted rats. This finding ultimately may help support the development of new therapies to treat drug addiction as well as certain behavioral side effects of medications."
Inactivation of the Interoceptive Insula Disrupts Drug Craving and Malaise Induced by Lithium
Science, 26 October 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5850, pp. 655 - 658
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/318/5850/655
Marco Contreras, Francisco Ceric, Fernando Torrealba
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