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Research hints that medications like Zepbound and Wegovy could provide new ways to treat opioid and alcohol abuse.

Creighton University researchers are studying the effects of Delta-8 THC on adolescents, using lab animals and devices that simulate vaping, a common method of using the drug.

A new pill called Naltrexone, known as 'Ozempic for drinking,' helps reduce alcohol cravings by blocking the euphoric effects ...

First, the connectome represents only one individual fly, and individual variability in brain structure may not be fully captured. Additionally, the map focuses on chemical synapses, leaving out ...

Led by Professor Jianfeng Feng, the research team discovered that the addiction is tied to a brain network responsible for how we respond to danger. This research, published in Science Advances ...

Learn more When is too much of a good thing a bad thing? When it comes to sex addiction, or compulsive sexual behaviour, it’s when your passion for passion leads to an inability to control ...

Signals from those muscles control robotic joints, so the prosthesis is fully under control of the user’s brain. The system enabled people with below-knee amputations to walk more naturally and ...

They also identified the full set of cell classes in its brain, pinpointing different varieties of neurons and chemical connections — synapses — between these nerve cells, and looked at the ...

The first one is optogenetics, an established research technique that uses light to activate or inactivate cells in the brain. The next tool is bioluminescence, the same chemical reaction that ...

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating, sleeping and every other activity of her fly life. Now, in nine papers published ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...