Among children with lower psychological resilience, those who experienced more abuse showed brain-network patterns linked ...

Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as rewarding when you are hungry and water as rewarding when you are thirsty. But addictive substances like alcohol and ...

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 ...

Kratom is often marketed as a natural remedy, but its effects on the brain and body are complex and not fully understood. Depending on the dose, kratom can act like a stimulant or an opioid, raising ...

When Matthew Johnson, a psychedelic drug researcher at John Hopkins Medicine, studies the effects of psilocybin on patients suffering from depression or addiction, he is careful to exclude anyone with ...

“Cell phone addiction” may refer to a compulsive and excessive reliance on mobile devices that causes negative consequences in various aspects of life. Doctors do not formally recognize cell phone ...