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

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 ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other ...

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

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 ...

Imagine that you can be two different people. That's not such an absurd idea. It's been around in psychoanalysis (starting with Freud) for over a century, and even contemporary cognitive science and ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...

Sex addiction is not a real addiction in the way drug and alcohol addictions are. Compulsive sexual behavior is a preoccupation with sexual thoughts, urges, and behaviors that disrupt daily life. To ...