Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Methamphetamine addiction has long been framed as a story of dopamine gone haywire, with the drug flooding the brain’s reward ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

Studies by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researchers led by neuroscientist Bo Li, PhD, have uncovered how neurons called somatostatin-expressing (Sst +) central amygdala (CeA) neurons within the ...

New research shows it can tame other addictive behaviour that uses the same pathway,” says Dr Astik Joshi, psychiatrist at ...

A new study published in the journal Science Signaling has found that an immune system protein plays a central role in the ...

Researchers carrying out functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in different areas of the human brain have discovered how cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how ...

Researchers report October 25 in the journal Neuron that cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how we perceive and learn from rewards. Though people with cocaine addiction have ...

"This is your brain on drugs" Source: via wikimedia commons. Remember that 20th century ad on TV about drug addiction that compared your brain on drugs to a fried egg? Addiction starts with the brain.

The concept of dopamine fasting has surged in popularity, particularly in high-performance environments like Silicon Valley. Proponents claim that temporarily abstaining from pleasurable activities ...