The opioid epidemic is devastating America. Overdoses have passed car crashes and gun violence to become the leading cause of death for Americans under 55. The epidemic has killed more people than HIV ...
Researchers have used mouse models to study how cocaine addiction alters the brain, illuminating why relapse is common as ...
When a cocaine addict relapses, it isn't a matter of personal failure—it's the biological result of their brain's rewiring, ...
Scientists identify the protein DeltaFosB as the "master switch" that rewires the brain's memory and reward circuits, driving chronic cocaine addiction and relapse.
In my previous post, I promised this post would describe the minority of users whose lives are taken over by cannabis. Although less common, given how many people begin using cannabis during ...
The ‘gray area’ of addiction.
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Brain scans on psychedelics reveal how wild visual hallucinations form
A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to ...
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 ...
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