Methamphetamine addiction has long been framed as a story of dopamine gone haywire, with the drug flooding the brain’s reward circuits and rewiring behavior around compulsive use. Emerging work now ...
Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through similar mechanisms.
(THE CONVERSATION) Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through ...