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

Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of alcohol abuse, existing treatments have failed to provide meaningful ...

The much-maligned 1995 cyberpunk film envisioned a world of tech addiction, brain implants, and AI companions—ideas that feel eerily relevant in today's world.

Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Brain imaging studies show that grievances—real or imagined perceptions of injustice, disrespect, betrayal, shame, or victimization—activate the ...

Children, adolescents, and unborn babies exposed to high levels of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) face increased risks of ...

Previous studies have reported a role of alterations in the brain’s inhibitory control mechanism in addiction. Mounting evidence from neuroimaging studies indicates that its key components can be ...

And the "gooners," to use cultural parlance for people who are seriously hooked on erotica, had heightened connectivity in regions related to executive function, addiction, and emotional regulation.

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.

This focused review integrates theoretical and empirical work from developmental neuroscience, attachment theory, and psychodynamic psychotherapy to reconceptualize addiction as a disorder rooted in ...