A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), published in eBioMedicine, ...

A new study suggests that long Covid-19 injures the dopamine system in the brain, which can cause issues with ...

Scientists say they've uncovered striking new evidence of how alcohol addiction impacts the brain's learning systems—and how those systems may slowly adapt during recovery—in a new study published in ...

Addiction is one of the most common and consequential chronic medical conditions in the United States. Nationwide, more than 46 million people met the criteria for a substance abuse disorder as of ...

In my previous post, I suggested that regular cannabis use gradually shifts the brain into a new adaptive operating state—one ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced a bit of fame in recent years, acting as a sort of buzzword to describe a ...

Ramirez is an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University. When philosophers imagined the ship of Theseus, they asked: Can a vessel that has all its planks replaced ...

Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through similar mechanisms. Meth ...

A study published today in Nature Neuroscience has mapped a previously unknown three-node brain circuit that governs how the emotional alarm system decides what deserves attention — and the discovery ...

Chinese researchers have developed a wearable dopamine patch that could help monitor depression and Parkinson's disease by ...