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

What happens in addiction is that, through completely natural processes involved in all learning, the brain prunes nerve pathways of attention and motivation to preferentially notice, focus on ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the National Institute on Drug Abuse have developed a new ...

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Recent research has also implicated several other brain areas in addiction processes including broad regions of the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, and the amygdala, among several others.

The study focused on identifying convergent mechanisms of addiction in mouse models across two different classes of drugs: cocaine, a psychostimulant, and morphine, an opioid.

A new brain imaging study suggests that people who report symptoms of addiction to short-form video platforms—such as TikTok or Instagram Reels—may be less sensitive to financial losses and ...

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 porn is addictive.

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