10 Ways Brain Scans Can Help with Addictions

For example, low-threshold spiking striatal interneurons show acute ethanol-induced hyperpolarization, but fast-spiking interneurons (FSIs) show a significant ethanol-induced membrane depolarization (Blomeley et al., 2011). Indeed, in vivo electrophysiological recordings show that acute ethanol increases the firing rate of FSIs in the NAc that may be related to the depolarization observed in vitro (Burkhardt and Adermark, […]