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

For decades, Americans have been told a simple story about addiction: taking drugs damages the brain—and the earlier in life children start using substances, the more likely they are to progress ...

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

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 ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

A brain abscess, an infected heart valve, liver cancer, an amputated arm and a 30-year-old mother receiving CPR in the emergency room at Falmouth Hospital. What connects these various storylines?

Matt Field receives research funding from the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Alcohol Change UK, and the Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling. He is a trustee of ...

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a mystery-there’s a lot that even experts don’t know. Another troubling fact ...

I have two books for sale which address food addiction, and I could benefit financially from increased interest in the food addiction topic: Wilcox C.E. Food Addiction Obesity and Disorders of ...

The traumatic events that firefighters, first responders and law enforcement workers witness can lead to severe mental health struggles in their daily lives. A 2023 study by the National Highway ...