Researchers identified a key molecule that highlights how the immune system is linked to the release of dopamine.

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

Researchers find that communication between key brain regions shortly after injury may predict long-term functional recovery ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast ...

For decades, my colleagues and I advanced the premise that early substance use—nicotine, alcohol, or cannabis (or other addicting drugs)—interferes with critical maturation stages, particularly ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved on Friday a label change for Pfizer's birth control shot Depo-Provera that warns patients of the risk of meningioma, a tumor in the lining of the brain.

A paper published today in the journal Cell Reports Medicine offers new hope for an Alzheimer’s drug that doesn’t just slow cognitive decline but may reverse it. The study, by researchers at the ...

Comments about Nick Reiner's battle with drug addiction are resurfacing, including where he said he "wrecked" his parents' guest home. Reiner, 32, was taken into police custody on Sunday, Dec. 14, and ...

Rob Reiner’s youngest son, Nick Reiner, detailed his drug addiction years before he was named a person of interest in his parents’ shocking stabbing death. “I was homeless in Maine. I was homeless in ...