Noninvasive brain stimulation rescues cocaine-induced inflexibility in rats

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Noninvasive brain stimulation rescues cocaine-induced inflexibility in rats

A major impediment to treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) is a loss of behavioral flexibility, whereby one’s judgment is impaired such that their actions continuously result in negative consequences. Such decisions include continuing to use drugs, but this inflexibility extends to other areas of life and can continue even well into abstinence from drug use. Previous research in animals suggests that this inflexibility can be traced to reduced neural signaling in brain regions critical for behavioral flexibility.

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