{"id":238720,"date":"2026-06-10T23:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cocaines-effect-on-mice-may-explain-human-drug-seeking-behavior"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:05:53","slug":"cocaines-effect-on-mice-may-explain-human-drug-seeking-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cocaines-effect-on-mice-may-explain-human-drug-seeking-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine\u2019s effect on mice may explain human drug-seeking behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cocaines-effect-on-mice-may-explain-human-drug-seeking-behavior2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cocaine can speedily rewire high-level brain circuits that support learning, memory and decision-making, according to new research from UC Berkeley and UCSF. The findings shed new light on the frontal brain\u2019s role in drug-seeking behavior and may be key to tackling addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocaine can speedily rewire high-level brain circuits that support learning, memory and decision-making, according to new research from UC Berkeley and UCSF. The findings shed new light on the frontal brain\u2019s role in drug-seeking behavior and may be key to tackling addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}