Cocaine alters brain cell shape
Adolescents are highly at risk for abusing drugs. Now, Yale researchers may have a better understanding as to why.
A new study published this week in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science builds on previous research which claimed that cocaine changes the shape of brain cells. Postdoctoral fellow Shannon Gourley and her team, however, took this one step further by investigating whether this change in the structure of neurons had any effect on behavior. They discovered that learning ability and sensitivity to cocaine may indeed determined by the shape of...
