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

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

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

“There?s a misconception that addiction is just a problem with your personality or character or you just need to suck it up,” said Dr. Geoffrey Schoenbaum, assistant professor of anatomy and ...

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

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

Los Angeles, California - From Refugee Camp to Research Leadership: Dr. Edythe London's Quest to Conquer Addiction In a captivating Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine, Dr. Edythe ...

You've probably heard about the controversy between the disease model of addiction and the choice model. Stanton Peele, a blogger here on the PT site, waxes eloquent on the topic. You may have even ...

A thin, shy 24-year-old arrived on time, excited for his weekly appointment at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center. It’s a stark contrast to the day four years ago when he broke down in a doctor’s ...

People suffering from severe alcohol and opioid addiction are to be offered a revolutionary new technique involving planting electrodes in the brain to modulate brain activity and cravings and improve ...

Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks the Brain, is a three-part series hosted by Dr Brian Pennie looking at the impact of addiction on the brain and seeking to explain and destigmatise both behavioural and ...