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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 ...

Consider someone addicted to alcohol, drugs, or a behavior like gambling. Why do they continue, even when they say they want to stop? It's a question that highlights a fundamental disconnect: the gap ...

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 ...

Multiple studies have also found that suddenly ending a diet that's high in sugar can cause withdrawal, similar to when ...

The book is available on Amazon, and Abrams, a doctor of theology, will hold a book signing on November 8 at the Port Arthur Public Library.

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.

Learn about opioid use disorder, the importance of recovery, and how the brain changes when using opioids. Understand the ...

A massive brain imaging study of nearly 30,000 people has uncovered striking connections between eating ultra-processed foods ...

Is Häagen-Dazs ice cream as addictive as heroin? Or, put another way, is heroin as addictive as Häagen-Dazs? Depending on how you phrase the question, you’re either asking whether heroin addiction is ...

Analyzing data from more than half a million adults in the U.S. and U.K., researchers found that even light drinking was ...