Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

Is Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) real? A new study suggests it may be — and that its effects can be seen in the human brain. The study asked those between the ages 14 and 21 questions about how ...

Playing video games may seem like a harmless way to unwind after a long day at work or school. However, gameplay can sometimes dip into something deeper and more consuming. As gaming technology has ...

A new interdisciplinary study from BYU, opens an angle of neuroimmune research that could potentially lead to better medical ...

A new study finds changes in brain regions associated with addiction in frequent video gaming teenagers. But the findings raise questions about whether such research is really relevant to the ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is evidence that GLP-1s can ameliorate psychiatric and neurologic symptoms. More clinical trials on the ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

A 2024 U.S. national survey reported that 11.8% of males and 7.6% of females ages 12 and older met the criteria for Alcohol ...