Methamphetamine dependent individuals show attenuated brain response to pleasant interoceptive stimuli
Conclusions: MD expend fewer brain processing resources during soft touch, a form of positively-valenced interoceptive stimuli, in brain areas that are important for both interoception and reward. Future studies will ascertain if sustained abstinence from methamphetamine use can normalize aberrant neural interoceptive processing.
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: April C. May, Jennifer L. Stewart, Robyn Migliorini, Susan F. Tapert, Martin P. Paulus Tags: Full Length Reports Source Type: research
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