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The Brain and Addiction
Images and text for this gallery courtesy of The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) http://165.112.78.61/NIDAHome.html.

<< 2/12 < > Certain parts of the brain govern specific functions such as the sensory (orange), motor (blue) and visual cortex (yellow). The cerebellum (pink) is for coordination and the hippocampus (green) is for memory. Nerve cells or neurons connect one area to another via pathways to send and integrate information. The distances that neurons extend can be short or long. For example; examine the reward pathway (orange). This pathway is activated when a person receives positive reinforcement for certain behaviors ("reward"). As another example, the thalamus (magenta) receives information about pain coming from the body (magenta line within the spinal cord), and passes the information up to the cortex.

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