Motivating Learning: Neuroscience Insights from Video Game Model & Drug Addiction to Inspire Children's Learning Perseverance and Success The popularity of video games is not the enemy of children's ...

When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Drug Education Council is putting their heads together to help students think smarter about brain health. Standing 12 feet tall and stretching 18 feet long, the megabrain is ...

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 ...

Researchers have used mouse models to study how cocaine addiction alters the brain, illuminating why relapse is common as ...

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

Scientists identify the protein DeltaFosB as the "master switch" that rewires the brain's memory and reward circuits, driving chronic cocaine addiction and relapse.

While most prior studies have focused on brain-centric models of reward, some work has shown that gut-vagal signals have an effect on food-driven dopamine activity and eating behaviors. Yet it was ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

Grace Point Treatment Center has released an educational article examining “how drug addiction is assessed and treated within licensed clinical environments”. The resource is positioned as an ...