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. Meth ...
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 is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Habibeh Khoshbouei, University of Florida and Marcelo Febo, University of Florida (THE ...