To better understand how cocaine hijacks the brain's natural reward pathways, scientists used single-cell whole-brain imaging to compare neuroplastic changes after cocaine or sugar water administration in mice. They found similarities in the region of the brain responsible for dopamine rewards
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MurdrWeaponRocketBra t1_j5xbwyo wrote
They should study how cocaine affects the brains of people with ADHD because it doesn't have the same effect on us as it does on neurotypicals. Anecdotally, none of my friends with ADHD get a high from coke (sample size 8).