University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus discusses what addiction is, including what may cause it and how empathy is a key part of treating it.

Mindfulness therapy reduces opioid craving and addiction, study finds Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement restores the brain's ability to savor natural healthy rewards in people addicted to ...

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus discusses what addiction is, including what may cause it and how empathy is a key part of treating it.

At the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, researchers are looking for genetic links, studying personality traits and seeking new therapies for addiction.Their hope is to someday not ...

The nicotine found in tobacco stimulates the reward circuit, encouraging consumption and potentially leading to addiction. In a paper published in Neuron, scientists reveal how, in mice, a small ...

By deepening our understanding of how drugs act at the genetic, molecular, physiological, and brain-circuit levels, we can develop more targeted and effective treatments for addiction and other ...

Specifically, the study failed to show that consumption of an ultra-processed food beverage acted on the brain like other addictive drugs and did not trigger a measurable amount of dopamine release ...

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus discusses what addiction is, including what may cause it and how empathy is a key part of treating it.

Discovery of a natural regulatory mechanism for nicotine addiction In a study published in the journal , scientists focused on a small brain region called the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN).

In lab results, her findings suggest heritability plays a large role in methamphetamine addiction. “The impact is huge,” she said. “It’s 60% of the heritability, which is one of the most ...

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus discusses what addiction is, including what may cause it and how empathy is a key part of treating it.