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Teaching Packets: The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction
- Section I: Introduction to the Brain
- Section II: The Reward Pathway and Addiction
- Section III: The Action of Heroin (Morphine)
- Section IV: The Action of Cocaine
- 1: The action of cocaine
- 2: Snorting vs smoking cocaine: different addictive liabilities
- 3: Localization of cocaine "binding sites"
- 4: Dopamine binding to receptors and uptake pumps in the nucleus accumbens: the action of cocaine
- 5: Cocaine dependence and activation of the reward pathway
- 6: Rats self-administer cocaine
- 7: Summary: addictive drugs activate the reward system via increasing dopamine neurotransmission
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Section IV: The Action of Cocaine
In This Section
- 1: The action of cocaine
- 2: Snorting vs smoking cocaine: different addictive liabilities
- 3: Localization of cocaine "binding sites"
- 4: Dopamine binding to receptors and uptake pumps in the nucleus accumbens: the action of cocaine
- 5: Cocaine dependence and activation of the reward pathway
- 6: Rats self-administer cocaine
- 7: Summary: addictive drugs activate the reward system via increasing dopamine neurotransmission
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