Posted by Dade on July 19, 2008, at 1:38:54
In reply to Study highlights Dopamine's dichotomous role, posted by jrbecker76 on July 10, 2008, at 19:29:10
"disruptions in dopamine neurotransmission in an adjacent region may be a mechanism for excessive reward-seeking in conditions like addiction."
Heres where i have a curiosity with. Say someone who fails in life/is mood disordered, takes, say a stimulant drug/alcohol and feels remarkably better and functions better, but is also unable to stop using, one could say they are altering the mentioned brain area to a more normal state. Now we also know that chronic use of these drugs causes changes to this brain area, so it's a catch 22?
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