Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

You may be surprised to learn that, according to AddictionHelp.com, an estimated 12% of American adults (~41 million) have ...

The landscape of mental health support for individuals grappling with gambling addiction is undergoing a significant transformation, particularly in regions where regulated betting markets are ...

Kindbridge Behavioral Health and Axis Integrated Mental Health have formed a partnership to expand access to care for ...

So you’re a bear in the forest, and you’re hungry. When you trundle toward a raspberry bush and get your first taste of ripe, ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy ap ...

A recent study of a million people with 14 psychiatric disorders showed these disorders fell into five genetic clusters. However, addiction may be one disease, not a moral failing.

The brain disease model promised clarity, but reality stayed messy For decades, the dominant scientific story has framed addiction as a chronic brain disease, a view popularized to counter the idea ...

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A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks responsible for creative thinking. The findings indicate that the brains ...

Substance use disorder is a universal, complex health condition that manifests as the uncontrollable consumption of alcohol ...

Disrupting left superior frontal sulcus selectively impaired perceptual but not value-based decisions, revealing segregated ...