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

Mount Sinai researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder – known as the orbitofrontal cortex ...

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

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

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

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

Drug-laced vape liquids can alter perception within seconds, with fast-acting substances such as etomidate driving rapid ...

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that may explain why people recovering from drug addiction often relapse. Repeated ...

For decades, Americans have been told a simple story about addiction: taking drugs damages the brain—and the earlier in life children start using substances, the more likely they are to progress ...

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