German researchers examined 48 participants using the MRI images — 22 with smartphone addiction and 26 non-addicts. Writing in the study, published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, the ...

New research findings suggest that structural abnormalities in the brains of cocaine addicts are related in part to drug use and in part to a predisposition toward addiction. The research maps the ...

New research findings suggest that structural abnormalities in the brains of cocaine addicts are related in part to drug use and in part to a predisposition toward addiction. The research ...

In addiction, the prefrontal cortex fails to control drug-seeking behaviours. Peter Kalivas reviews the hypothesis that a loss of glutamate homeostasis at prefrontal-to-accumbens synapses ...

In March, Stephen Loyd was scrolling through Google images for a PowerPoint presentation on addiction when a picture of a bottle of Percocet pills triggered a powerful craving. His mouth watered ...

A new study completed by researchers at UCLA determined that the brain responses of self identifying sex addicts to sexual imagery did not mirror the responses of drug addicts to images of drugs ...

Accordingly, rats positive for three addiction-like behaviors (3crit or Addict-like) and rats positive for none of them (0crit or Non-Addict-like) showed clear-cut differences in both the three ...

Web addicts have brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, preliminary research suggests. Experts in China scanned the brains of 17 young web addicts and found disruption in the ...

Chicago - Cocaine addicts may have brain deficits that predispose them to drug abuse, and abusing drugs appears to make matters worse, US researchers said on Wednesday. They said images of cocaine ...

Web addicts have brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, preliminary research suggests. Experts in China scanned the brains of 17 young web addicts and found disruption in the ...