Does cocaine damage your brain? While the answer is almost certainly yes, a new study by Cousijn et al. (2021) suggests that you might want to take particular caution with it if you’re a woman. These researchers wanted to see how cocaine might differently impact the brains of women versus men—important because most studies in…
Nicotine is a very commonly used drug. As we know, drugs can alter our brain states and brain areas after continuous use. This study focuses on different brain states (activity of the brain) and how nicotine affects them. One brain state is DMN which stands for the default mode network. This network of interacting brain…
Is it possible that the reason you are or are not addicted to drugs is due to the strength of the social network that surrounds you and the support it provides you? Could meaningful social interaction replace or even reverse the appeal of or even the addiction to drugs? Is the way we treat addicts…
Have you ever wondered what motivates an individual to use cannabis? Is it a psychological want or physiological need? To begin, cannabis has become the most widely used illicit substance in the world. The drug is used by many, in many places; whether that be for medical or recreational purposes. The frontostriatolimbic region mainly contains…