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Behavioural effects of cocaine reversed

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Cocaine use causes lasting changes in behaviour by altering the strength of connections between neurons. The finding that these changes can be reversed in mice suggests strategies that could be used to treat drug addiction. See Letter p.71

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Figure 1: Normalizing the locomotor response to cocaine in mice.

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  1. Marina E. Wolf is in the Department of Neuroscience, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois 60064-3095, USA.,

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Wolf, M. Behavioural effects of cocaine reversed. Nature 481, 36–37 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/481036a

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