A human brain circuit for addiction remission
: Joutsa Juho, Fox Michael D.
Publisher: NATURE PORTFOLIO
: 2022
: Nature Medicine
: NAT MED
: 28
: 6
: 1137
: 1138
: 2
: 1546-170X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01864-6
Substance addiction is a major public health crisis. Neuromodulation treatments show promise, but the therapeutic targets remain unclear. Studying human brain lesions that led to addiction remission with the lesion-network-mapping approach resulted in the identification of a brain circuit shared across addiction disorders that may have therapeutic potential.