New research provides evidence that cannabis dependence is linked to altered activity in the striatum when receiving a socially rewarding stimulus. The study has been published in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology. “Current addiction theories propose that repeated drug use leads to lasting changes in motivational processes mediated by drug-induced adaptations in the brain reward systems, particularly the striatum,” said study co-author Benjamin Becker of neuSCAN Lab and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
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