Cocaine Addiction: Knowing Its Yin and Yang

Biology, by nature has a yin and a yang, or better known as a push and a pull, says Yaoying Ma, a research associate in the lab of Yan Dong. She adds that addiction, particularly relapse, is no exception. Prof. Yan Dong is the assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Ma is the lead author of a paper published online today in the journal emNeuron/em that posits that it may be possible to ramp up an ...