Understanding addiction from a medical perspective opens the door to better treatment, less judgment, and more successful recoveries. How Addiction Rewires the Brain ...

Dr. James Flowers, founder of J. Flowers Health Institute explains, “Understanding the neurochemical changes in the brain is crucial in grasping why addiction is not merely a matter of willpower.

The conversation around addiction has evolved dramatically over recent decades, with medical and scientific communities now firmly classifying it as a chronic brain disorder rather than a moral ...

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that ...

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus discusses what addiction is, including what may cause it and how empathy is a key part of treating it.

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM; 2019) clearly tells us that addiction is: A medical disease. Effected by an individual’s brain circuitry. Effected by an individual’s genetics.

News Release 4-Jun-2024 Signaling between brain regions altered in teenage internet addiction Brain signaling related to controlling behaviors, attention, and understanding our own emotions was ...

Why do so many people relapse after quitting cocaine? A new study from The Hebrew University reveals that a specific "anti-reward" brain circuit becomes hyperactive during withdrawal-driving ...

Recent studies have examined the relationship between the drug and psychoses and looked at how the brain responds to the ...

In grad school, Minto’s focus was on the neurogenomics of addiction and development. She used different omics data – whether that be chromatin data, gene expression data or specific protein-binding ...

How to escape dopamine addiction and train your brain to be truly happy - Neuroscientist TJ Power has the solution to finding happiness in the modern world: the DOSE method ...

By understanding how the brain sorts data, readers will find easier ways to optimize their environment for productivity without feeling overwhelmed.