A Single Drug Could One Day Treat Pain, Memory Loss And Nicotine Addiction

Instead, Hamouda’s team is developing a drug that would actually boost brain activity of the receptors that are linked to memory, pain signals and nicotine addiction. That boost helps the receptors that are working properly to function better, compensating for the activity of impaired receptors. The approach is like giving your brain a push, rather than making a chemical change, which the researchers suspect will mean fewer side effects for patients.