The drive to drink for someone with alcohol addiction often transforms from a pursuit of pleasure to a desperate need to ...

Jinwoo Park, PhD, associate professor of biotechnical and clinical laboratory sciences, recently received a $3.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study how ...

When we recall something familiar or explore a new situation, the brain does not always use the same communication routes.

Alcohol and other drugs can overpower the reward pathways of the brain. Simona Dumitru/Moment via Getty Images Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as ...

Neurobiological conditioning is the process by which we learn to associate these cues with the behavior. Once conditioning ...

What compels someone to keep engaging in alcohol use, even if it damages their health, relationships and well-being? A new study from Scripps Research offers an important clue: a small midline brain ...

“I don’t understand why he just can’t stop abusing alcohol.” Turns out that addiction is a whole lot more complicated than just saying “no.” Although the stigma of addiction as a moral failing ...

Mount Sinai researchers, in collaboration with scientists at The Rockefeller University, have uncovered a mechanism in the brain that allows cocaine and morphine to take over natural reward processing ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Pornography triggers brain activity in sex addicts similar to the effect drugs have on the brains of drug addicts, researchers said on Friday - but that doesn't necessarily mean ...

New research published in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that a non-hallucinogenic analog of psychedelic drugs can stimulate brain cell growth through the same molecular pathway as traditional ...