How does the opioid system control pain, reward and addictive behavior

brooke submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.eurekalert.org)

Brigitte Kieffer presents at the 20th ECNP congress on Neuropsychopharmacology 2007, Vienna, Austria, exciting new methods that now allow to understand how molecules act in the brain and control behavior.

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how the mind processes placebo effect

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Neuroscientists have found that people who experience a strong dose of pleasure at the thought of an upcoming reward are more susceptible to the placebo effect.

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The Formation of Abnormal Associations in Schizophrenia: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

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The main finding in this article is that patients with schizophrenia, when exposed to neutral stimuli in a threatening situation, show an abnormal pattern of learning. The aberrant activations and response are consistent with the idea that patients aberrantly assign motivational salience to neutral stimuli, and this process may be one of the aberrations that predisposes them to psychosis.

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