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Addiction
Addiction: Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. It is considered a brain disease because drugs change the brain-they change its structure and how it works. These brain changes can be long-lasting, and can lead to the harmful behaviors seen in people who abuse drugs. Addiction is a lot like other diseases, such as heart disease. Both disrupt the normal, healthy functioning of the underlying organ, have serious harmful consequences, and are preventable and treatable, but if left untreated, can last a lifetime.
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JUL 25, 2015
Neuroscience
Schizophrenia is elusive. In spite of decades of using brain scans, computer models and other sophisticated tools, there
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 02, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do teenagers take big risks? While conventional wisdom put the blame on a dopamine rush, it now appears that "the ad
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 21, 2015
Neuroscience
We are in some ways in the infancy of understanding the impact on the brain of prolonged exposure to video game playing.
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 21, 2015
Health & Medicine
"Run! Duck! Cover... Oops, what was I doing again?" If you are an avid action gamer you may want to think twice about sp
...
Written By:
Kareem Heslop
MAY 15, 2015
Neuroscience
Consider the insurance salesman. She or he must overcome the preference in most people for immediate positive reinforcem
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 11, 2015
Neuroscience
More than 100 million Americans are victims of chronic pain, resulting in annual costs of approximately $600 billion in
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 04, 2015
Neuroscience
New research supports the use of motivational interviewing-a technique described below-to treat addictive behaviors like
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 21, 2015
Neuroscience
In a promising breakthrough for smokers who are trying to quit, neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts Medic
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 17, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Smokers with a specific genetic variation are more likely to keep smoking longer than those who don't have the gene vari
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 13, 2015
Neuroscience
Greed got you down? Don't fret--growing evidence of how the brain is wired for relationality and prosocial behavior was
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 26, 2015
Neuroscience
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...
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Robert Woodard
FEB 20, 2015
Health & Medicine
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...
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Ilene Schneider
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Microbiology
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...