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This section of the brain, the amygdala, is responsible for creating the feeling of craving, according to Breiter, who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School...
According to Hans C. Breiter, co-director of the Motivation and Emotion Neuroscience Collaboration (MENC) and senior author of the study, this key discovery lies in the structural differences within a specific part of the brains of cocaine addicts...
...Cocaine addicts have a terrible time seeing negative consequences of their actions—this is why they have to ‘hit bottom,’” said Breiter...
...Breiter said that such reduction in size was “unbelievable...
...study involved more extensive medical examination than any of the addicts ever had, many realized they were in good health, aside from being addicted to cocaine. ”We had people say, ‘Wow. Why am I still doing cocaine?’” Breiter says. Nine months later, Breiter says, a significant portion of the subjects had lowered or terminated their cocaine...