Drug addiction or substance use disorder (SUD) is a chronic brain disease. It's when someone continues using a drug despite ...

Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood disorder characterized by major fluctuations in mood — both high and low — that can ...

Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), discusses her ...

Barbiturates are central nervous system depressant drugs that have been used to treat seizures, insomnia, migraines, and more. However, they are not as commonly used today due to their side effects ...

Cannabis use may lead to thinning ... (THC), an active substance in cannabis, causes shrinkage of dendritic arborization — ...

In a small early trial using a transcranial magnetic stimulation procedure, scientists were able to target a key brain ...

They also share many of the same genes that control reward pathways in the brain thought to be important in substance use disorders. The center will build upon 10 years of NIDA-supported research ...

If you find yourself sleepy during your daily activities in your older age, you may need to consider it more than an inconvenience — since the fatigue may indicate you're at higher risk for developing ...

2, 2024 — Researchers show that a pill form of the drug dronabinol ... reported cannabis use, with 35% of those using at levels indicating moderate- to high-risk use disorder.

Alimetry has raised an oversubscribed US $18m A2 financing round to commercialize its wearable gut health monitoring device, ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma ... Oct. 22, 2024 — In a study, researchers use neuroimaging methods to examine brain resilience in regions of the brain linked to ...