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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

The mere sight of a slot machine can trigger a chemical response in the gambling addict's brain in the same way the thought of cocaine stimulates ... machine in feeding addiction is debated.

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 tumour in an emotional interview with Steven Bartlett ...