The Brain and Addiction: Insights from Dr. Mark Thomas

It's been much harder to understand how that dopamine response changes over time with repeated drug exposure. And so, combining that with imaging that we can do here at The University Of Minnesota, that not too many places have available magnetic resonance technology, mr imaging, to look across the entire brain, to look at kind of brain dynamics, that is, activity connecting one part of the brain to another over time. We do these kind of what we call longitudinal measurements, looking at the same subject again and again during different phases of drug exposure.