Brain Implant Aims to Stifle Drug Highs

Published July 29, 2013

Brain implant aims to stifle drug highs
( Case Western Reserve University ) Researchers at Case Western Reserve and Illinois State universities are investigating what happens in an animal brain when drugs of abuse provide no high. They are developing and testing a closed-loop system that detects changes in dopamine levels caused by a drug then suppresses reward-related signaling associated with a high. A $ 390,000 National Institute on …
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