By taking advantage of the brain’s marvelous plasticity, addiction remolds neural circuits to assign supreme value to cocaine or heroin or gin, at the expense of other interests such as health ...

Created with Sketch. The brain chemical that plays a starring role in addiction is the neurotransmitter dopamine. Addictive drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and many others—and eventually ...

Many are suffering from overstimulation by technology, and artificial intelligence threatens to worsen the problem. Dr. Anna ...

This phenomenon is normal for the brain. allowing it to dispose of ... drug based on the research could result in treating cocaine addiction in the future – a drug called CGP3466B has been ...

A 52-year-old man has knocked his decade-long cocaine addiction on the head after receiving weight-loss injections. The jab ...

Cocaine addiction creeps up on you slowly ... ischemic attack), caused by a brief blockage of blood flow to the brain, and was given blood thinners I needed to take long-term.

A study published in Science Signaling on the neural circuitry mediating addiction has made significant strides, particularly ...

The best of us have had low moments of questioning our life decisions over a devoured bag of chips. Science says it’s not ...

Davina McCall broke down in tears in her first podcast appearance after undergoing an operation to remove a benign brain ...