Lack of inhibition leads to abuse

Arthur C. Riegel and Peter W. Kalivas
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Arthur C. Riegel: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA. riegel@musc.edu
Peter W. Kalivas: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA. riegel@musc.edu

Nature, 2010, vol. 463, issue 7282, 743-744

Abstract: Chronic drug use can lead to addiction, which is initiated by specific brain circuits. The mystery of how one class of drugs, the benzodiazepines, affects activity in this circuitry has finally been solved.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/463743a

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