Now, a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE aims to fill in that research gap, by imaging the brains of potential sex addicts and comparing them to brain images of patients addicted to drugs.

Using MRI scans, the researchers saw there were issues in these regions of the brain when cocaine users were given a test in which fast, correct answers -- some dealing specifically with drug use ...

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

Sex addiction may not be a real disorder, according to a new UCLA study. Researchers measured brain waves in self-reported sex addicts. The scans revealed that their brain's responses when viewing ...

In other words, as in the case of sex addiction, a brain scan cannot indicate whether the subject is an addicted or controlled consumer, to what extent he might be addicted, or whether he is ready ...

Drug addiction, a disease of the brain. Every year, the abuse of illegal drugs and alcohol contributes to the death of more than 100,000 people in the U.S., ...

Drug addicts and their non-addicted siblings share certain features in the brain, suggesting a susceptibility to addiction is inherited but is also a flaw that can be overcome, scientists said on ...

One brain scan could reveal whether you’re at risk of ... Now scientists think they can see “impulsiveness” at work in the brain ... and it looks a lot like potential drug addiction. ...

The media wrongly refers to drug users as 'zombies.' ... Addiction is a brain disease that does not discriminate. ... This has been researched with extensive brain imaging studies.

Just as people can be addicted to drugs, they can be addicted to patterns of behavior. Behavioral addiction involves a compulsion to do a rewarding, non-substance-related behavior, sometimes ...

Researchers looked at data collected from 6,143 identified video game users ages 10–15 over four years. In the first year, ...