Brain immune system promotes relapses in drug addiction

Drugs like cocaine change our brain profoundly. Anyone who was addicted can feel a strong desire for the intoxication. A study on rats now shows that the brain’s immune cells, the microglia, apparently play an important role. During the cocaine withdrawal, they dismantle support cells in the brain’s reward center.

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