Listen to a sports podcast, scroll social media, or use an app with native ads, and see how many times you encounter an ad for online gambling. The double dare version of the experiment is to attempt ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called addiction “a source of misery, but also a symptom of misery." In a speech that ...

But buprenorphine’s strength as a treatment is also a weakness. Buprenorphine is an opioid. Like methadone, the tightly ...

Finding the right antidepressant treatment can be a frustrating, time-consuming process—one that often requires individuals ...

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 ...

A new study shows that brain connectivity patterns, especially in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, can help predict how ...

He spent the next decade and a half in the throes of addiction before cleaning up and pursuing a life in academia. He knows what it is to hit rock bottom and to turn things around. There are many ...

For anyone who’s struggled with addiction, it’s the feeling just ... Neuroscience shows that conscious reflection can rewire the brain. When we pause to ask, What do I hope this purchase ...

"Anecdotally, people with food addiction who find GLP-1s helpful in this regard talk about how the medication turns down the volume of 'food noise' in the brain, by which they mean the constant ...

Purcell’s story reflects the remarkable evolution of brain surgery ... are various teams of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center exploring how electrodes and ultrasonic beams ...

It is frequently said that addiction occurs when drugs “hijack” the brain.It’s hard to nail down what that means, but it does rightly suggest that there is an involuntary takeover of the ...