A study of individuals with cocaine use disorder found that, when given the option, those with a thicker insula region in the ...

The consensus among neuroscientists is that hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, exert their powerful ...

Cocaine can kill the brain cells that allow users to get 'high' on the drug, say scientists. They have discovered the first direct evidence that cocaine may be lethal to key cells in the brain's ...

After they're released by brain cells to send out their signal, they're taken up again by special receptors on that cell. Cocaine blocks those receptors, effectively shutting off this normal ...

Created with Sketch. The brain chemical that plays a starring role in addiction is the neurotransmitter dopamine. Addictive drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and many others—and eventually ...

Stroke can result from various toxic exposures including illicit drugs, with cocaine being one of the more frequently cited agents. Cocaine is known to be an important risk factor for ischemic and ...

they're disassociated from their brain, they don't know what's going on," Bridget Brennan, New York City's special narcotics prosecutor, said to CBS News. Pink cocaine is "referred to as 'Russian ...

It includes important studies of suicide, childhood anxiety, depression, eating disorders, cocaine addiction, and other aspects of brain and behavior illness. Fernando M. C. V. Reis, Ph.D., University ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Cocaine is one of the most popular narcotics available. Here's exactly what the drug does to your brain and body. Produced by Delano Samuels Follow BI Video ...