New research shows that astrocytes play an active role in nicotine-induced brain changes, challenging the long-held ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

Is Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) real? A new study suggests it may be — and that its effects can be seen in the human brain. The study asked those between the ages 14 and 21 questions about how ...

Habits can feel mysterious, arriving almost overnight or refusing to stick despite weeks of effort. New work on a “hidden ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of ...

For weeks, Steele, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, and members of his lab have traveled to an addiction treatment center in Middletown, Connecticut, where they are ...

Changing levels of the brain protein KCC2 can alter how reward associations form, reshaping the learning process that links ...

Why do the 3-day smartphone detox brain changes feel like breaking an addiction for some people? It might sound tough—or even ...

Researchers have found that eating highly processed, sugary, fat-filled foods not only changes your body but also your brain. Dr. Dana Small, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Metabolism and the ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the mind Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow Research on how smartphone use ...

These eras of brain architecture are marked by four major turning points, which occur around the ages of 9, 32, 66 and 83, ...