Argentine scientists unravel mechanisms of addiction to paco
«There are few reports on paco and no study on neurocognitive changes due to chronic drug use,» explains Agustín Ibáñez, director of the Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (triple dependence, Ineco-Favaloro-Conicet). Thanks to the Florencio Pérez Foundation, we were able to begin to study an aspect linked to a mechanism known as ‘interoception’ [that is, the ability to sense one’s own body signals], which some call ‘the eighth sense’. «The work was published in Neuropsychopharmacology, a scientific journal of the Nature group.
