Month: April 2013

  • Stimulating Prefrontal Cortex in Brain May Help Cocaine Addicts

    Scientists at the National Institute for Health (NIH) and at the University of California in San Francisco teamed up to use lasers to help the cravings on cocaine-addicted lab rats. The technique known as optogenetic stimulation reduced the cravings of severely addicted rats. According to GovExec.com, “The researchers studied rats that were chronically addicted to…