SAN DIEGO—University of California–San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers have created an atlas of the amygdala, a structure within the brain that plays a crucial role in controlling emotional responses to drugs, it was announced Oct. 5.
Their findings, published Thursday in Nature Neuroscience, helped the researchers identify a potential new treatment for cocaine addiction—something poorly understood at the molecular level and with virtually no approved pharmacological treatments.
