Among the neurotransmitters involved in addiction, dopamine (DA) is clearly the best known. The critical role of DA in addiction is supported by converging evidence that has been accumulated in the last 40 years. In the present review, first we describe the dopaminergic system in terms of conne...
The combination of maternal chemokines and pro-inflammatory cytokines cross the placenta and can act in fetal brain development, stimulating inflammatory mediators that damage the brain, affecting its epigenetics, and leading to harmful effects on its plasticity, the migration of precursors, synapse ...