Now, scientists from the University of Warwick have made important progress in learning what causes alcohol addiction in the ...

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

Does using alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances? In standard brain ...

A new doctoral dissertation from the University of Turku shows that gambling disorder is rooted in specific brain networks ...

A researcher at UB's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) has found a change in the brain that occurs after drug use and that may contribute to drug addiction. The finding, reported in the January ...

Methamphetamine addiction has a way of looping back on itself. A rush of pleasure pulls you in, cravings follow, and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “This study is extremely helpful because it begins to outline the brain changes that are seen in teenagers who start to use drugs ...

Researchers at the University of Houston and the University of Cincinnati are using machine learning to create a clearer picture of how heroin affects the brain, potentially opening new doors for ...

A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...