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A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give researchers and ...

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

For the study, published Tuesday in the journal Radiology, researchers compared brain scans of people addicted to opioids with those of non-addicts, using scans performed between February 2021 and ...

By 1997 Alan I. Leshner, then the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, published the foundational position paper, “Addiction Is a Brain Disease, and It Matters.” ...

Arguably, more is known about the brain mechanisms of drug addiction than any other neuropsychiatric disorder, and efforts to further extend this knowledge must remain a high national priority.

Though DBS has already been used to treat movement-related brain disorders, the AHN study is innovative in using the technology to address opioid addiction in patients who haven’t responded well ...

After receiving the drug or a placebo, the researchers used PET imaging to examine differences in the participants’ dopamine levels and fMRI imaging to study brain activity.

Substance use disorder afflicts many Americans — in 2021, 46.3 million people in the United States age 12 or older were addicted to alcohol or drugs such as opioids and stimulants.