For Amit, it all started with a college poker game. Now he's in recovery from a gambling addiction that consumed him and his ...

Erin McNulty had been missing for weeks when her mother, Linda, sat down on a chair in her living room, exhausted. Linda had put in her usual seven-day workweek at the antiques shop she runs near ...

ONE PEPTIDE has recently transformed medicine. Drugs based on glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone released by the gut after a meal, began as treatments for diabetes before proving remarkably ...

Jessica Rendall is a reporter with experience covering a variety of health and wellness topics, including chronic disease, infectious disease, telemedicine, mental health and health technology. Carley ...

People with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, alcohol addiction, or psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia show increased brain aging, each in specific patterns within the brain, according to ...

People with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, alcohol addiction or psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia show increased brain aging, each in specific patterns within the brain, according to a ...

A study published today in Nature Neuroscience has mapped a previously unknown three-node brain circuit that governs how the emotional alarm system decides what deserves attention — and the discovery ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, she was part of a team studying 13 teens and ...

A sweeping review of over 8,000 participants reveals how cannabis use during the teenage years may reshape the developing brain, raising urgent questions about long-term risks and early intervention.

Cocaine’s heyday as a party drug may feel like a distant past, but an estimated 5.5 million Americans used the illicit substance at least once in 2019. For some, that use can spiral into addiction — a ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

A study in mouse models demonstrates how cocaine alters hippocampal function, driving relapse, and identifies a possible therapeutic target. Researchers at Michigan State University (MI, USA), led by ...