New treatments for addiction are urgently needed. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 107,941 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, an age-adjusted rate of 32.6 ...

Extreme instances of stress can cause lasting changes to the brain itself. This could leave some people more vulnerable to addiction, a University of Mississippi study concludes. The study's insight ...

Addiction is one of the most common and consequential chronic medical conditions in the United States. Nationwide, more than 46 million people met the criteria for a substance abuse disorder as of ...

Researchers found that adolescents with more symptoms of gaming addiction showed lower brain activity in the region involved in decision-making and reward processing; this blunted response to reward ...

Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages each week could have a damaging effect on the brain, according to a new study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...

Explore the connections between the world of neuroscience and nuances of substance use disorders with our inaugural episode of In Such a Place. We’ll speak with Dr. Anna Radke, a leading expert in the ...

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 ...

Hardcore online gamer? Spending hours on end plugged into stuff like World of Warcraft daily? Pay close attention then. While none of what I’m about to relay is definitive, it does have the air of ...

Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that are widely used as a quick fix for obesity and diabetes treatment might be reshaping parts of the brain. The GLP-1 drugs, which acts like hormones controlling hunger ...

Your endless scroll may be costing you more than just your time. New research shows it’s changing the way you think and make decisions. These days, almost everything is available in the form of quick, ...

I specialize in treating conditions that involve both the mind and the brain, including addiction, brain injury, chronic disease, and trauma. All of us have access to wisdom within ourselves that may ...