Addicted monkeys demonstrate how to control addiction.

The director of the Kerman Neurosciences Research Center said: “A research proposal on the investigation of the ways to control monkeys struggle with morphine addiction to prevent them from returning to addiction is being implemented in collaboration with a team of Iranian researchers and researchers from Australian and Japanese universities.”

Vahid Sheibani mentioned the return to drug use or relapse after an attempt to stop is one of the main problem of addiction among opiate addicts and said:” efforts in this projects is to figure out the precise brain mechanism of this procedure to help with relapse prevention using electrical brain stimulation along with evaluation of the neural activity of brain regions involved in brain rewards by cognitive-behavioral studies.”

He also added:” This research project has been conducted on the animal with more similarity to humans’ in an international collaboration with a team of Iranian researchers in the Kerman Neurosciences Research Center and the results of the project have also improved.”