“In a sense, addiction is a pathological form of learning,” says Antonello Bonci ... or do brain vulnerabilities due to genetics, trauma, stress, or other factors increase the risk of becoming ...

As a behavioral neurogeneticist leading a team investigating the molecular mechanisms of addiction, I combine neuroscience with genetics to ... on or off when you are learning new things is ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has approved a five-year, $8 million grant for the school to study the genetics of ...

Some of the common underlying factors that contribute to addiction include genetics, trauma, stress ... mean avoiding people or situations that may trigger addictive behaviors, learning to say no to ...

Alcohol enhances the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA leading to impaired judgement. With frontal lobes ...

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The research, published in Nature Genetics, investigated the effect ... can no longer bind to its target in the cancer cell. Drug addiction mutations lead to some of the cancer cells using the ...

Which ones stem from genetics or brain chemistry ... many people can learn to control their use. The most important factor in recovery from addiction is widely understood to be an individual ...

On October 10, the Qualcomm Institute (QI) at UC San Diego hosted the CalIT2 Workshop on Health and Research Innovations, ...