Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much ...

Methamphetamine addiction has long been framed as a story of dopamine gone haywire, with the drug flooding the brain’s reward ...

A 2024 U.S. national survey reported that 11.8% of males and 7.6% of females ages 12 and older met the criteria for Alcohol ...

In the nearly two-hour-long episode, Lembke warned that with technology comes a new wave of addiction. While natural rewards ...

(CNN) — Maybe you’d like to spend time on hobbies or hang out with friends, but nothing feels as exciting and engaging as it used to –– so you just squander another hour on social media. Your problem ...

Your ex got a new car. Your high-school crush got married. Everyone’s traveling like they’ve got platinum credit cards with unlimited overdrafts and no interest. Those images come rushing into your ...

With algorithms fighting to capture our attention, an old trend is making a big comeback to give people the reset they need.

“Addiction is an important clinical term with a troubled and weighty history,” said Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist and coauthor of a brief explainer of what dopamine does and doesn’t do. “People ...

A new interdisciplinary study from BYU, opens an angle of neuroimmune research that could potentially lead to better medical ...