People with substance use disorder—whether addicted to alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or nicotine—share a strikingly similar ...

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New brain scan research supports the notion that some people have a food "addiction," with foods like white bread or potatoes helping to spur their craving to eat. Researchers used functional ("real ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced a bit of fame in recent years, acting as a sort of buzzword to describe a ...

Stimulating the brain's self-control center via rTMS reduces smoking by 11 cigarettes a day, outperforming reward-suppression ...

Imagine that you can be two different people. That's not such an absurd idea. It's been around in psychoanalysis (starting with Freud) for over a century, and even contemporary cognitive science and ...