Brain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up before they take their first puff or sip ...

Lucia Carvelli, Ph.D., associate professor of neuroscience at Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College ...

Understanding the gut-brain axis is key to addressing eating disorders. This study highlights microbiota's influence and ...

Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Brain imaging studies show that grievances—real or imagined perceptions ...

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change the brain, proving that addiction is a brain disease.

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Addiction causes hundreds of changes in brain anatomy, chemistry, and cell-to-cell signaling, including in the gaps between neurons called synapses, which are the molecular machinery for learning.

Substance use and substance use disorder (formerly substance abuse) differ by the frequency of use and the effect on a person ...

New research from the University of California San Diego finds that chronic administration of cannabidiol (CBD) may significantly reduce alcohol dependence and prevent alcohol-induced brain damage, ...