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

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

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

A new study published in the journal Science Signaling has found that an immune system protein plays a central role in the ...

To explore these neural differences, the researchers used a computational approach called “network control theory” to measure how the brain transitions between different patterns of activity during ...

For weeks, Steele, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, and members of his lab have traveled to an addiction treatment center in Middletown, Connecticut, where they are ...

Researchers identified a key molecule that highlights how the immune system is linked to the release of dopamine.

n A BRAIN DISEASE: Most scientists now consider addiction a brain disease: a condition caused by persistent changes to brain structure and function. Using drugs repeatedly over time changes brain ...

Ramirez is an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University. When philosophers imagined the ship of Theseus, they asked: Can a vessel that has all its planks replaced ...

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

A preclinical study has reported a novel gene therapy that selectively dampens pain processing in the brain while avoiding ...