Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion—10% to 20%—of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a critical ...

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion - 10 to 20 percent - of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a ...

The neurotransmitter transporters have also proved to be very important targets for CNS drug discovery, particularly for antidepressant drugs. Virtually all of the modern generation of ...

Furthermore, therapeutic drugs for the treatment of these disorders have been developed and categorized largely on the basis of their effects on neurotransmitter release and resulting receptor ...

The VTA is also one of several areas where the neurotransmitter occurs naturally. In their experiments, the researchers observed increased locomotor activity, comparable to that seen with cocaine ...

Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion — 10 to 20 percent — of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a ...

Drugs of abuse abet, or interfere with the chemical messengers, or neurotransmitters. The neurotransmitters that facilitate addiction are released by the 10 billion neurons that deal with ...

But this is not the case when we introduce a drug like cocaine. Neurotransmitters are designed to attach themselves only to specific receptors in order to pass on information. But the molecules of ...

Drugs that bind to neurotransmitter receptors, mimicking the activity of a neurotransmitter chemical binding to the receptor, are called agonists, per the Merck Manual. Antagonist drugs block a ...