A new doctoral dissertation from the University of Turku shows that gambling disorder is rooted in specific brain networks ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Participants in a deep brain stimulation trial for drug addiction say the implants triggered compulsive behavior that upended ...

Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

Addiction is a disease that affects millions of Americans. It is extremely widespread, with an estimated 8 percent to 10 percent of individuals in the United States 12 years of age or older (between ...

(THE CONVERSATION) People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest. “Patient’s pupils were nonreactive, and her skin was pale and felt cool to the ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte From laboratory models to small human trials, a new review explores whether popular metabolic drugs could ...