Discovering the brain circuit that cures addictive behaviors – | RCO News Agency

According to Mehr news agency, quoted from Physthis research in the Journal of Science Advances published and will likely lead to increased knowledge about OCD and addiction.

Animals and humans may be stuck in certain behaviors, but exactly how these behaviors are regulated in the brain has been unknown. Now researchers have been able to are Identify a specific neural circuit in the brain that puts behaviors in a kind of repetition mode. This process in mice made them repeat the same activities even without reward.

They examined a neural circuit that originates from the “nucleus accumbens(nucleus accumbens), part of the brain’s reward system, extends to an area in the hypothalamus.

This section also to laboratoryHabenola The lateral habenula, an area that processes unpleasant experiences, is connected. Researchers with Activation This circuit uses Optogenetics They were able to induce a negative state in mice that led to repetitive behaviors such as digging. Optogenetics It is a method of controlling nerve cells with light.

ConstantinoMeltis Institute professor Karolinska And one of the leaders of research in this load He says: We have identified a circuit in the brain that can change behavior from a repetitive state. This helps in understanding how obsessive behaviors escalate and provides perspective on conditions such as OCD and addiction.

This research shows Activation Arrange this circuit between cores accumbens And the hypothalamus gradually induces a negative state that leads to the preference of repetitive behaviors over natural needs in rats.

when Researchers have identified parts of the circuit that transmit messages from the hypothalamus to the laboratoryHabenola Side turned off, the obsessive behavior also disappeared.