Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...

Curiosity-driven experiments in a basement eventually sparked a worldwide rethink of how stress, addiction, and life experiences shape the brain.

Changing levels of the brain protein KCC2 can alter how reward associations form, reshaping the learning process that links ...

It is frequently said that addiction occurs when drugs “hijack” the brain. It’s hard to nail down what that means, but it does rightly suggest that there is an involuntary takeover of the brain that ...

New research shows that astrocytes play an active role in nicotine-induced brain changes, challenging the long-held ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent global health challenges, yet the cellular mechanisms underlying it are ...

Scientists discovered that altering levels of the KCC2 protein can dramatically change how the brain forms reward associations. Reduced KCC2 boosts dopamine activity, making new habits—good or ...

Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms ...

Explore the connections between the world of neuroscience and nuances of substance use disorders with our inaugural episode of In Such a Place. We’ll speak with Dr. Anna Radke, a leading expert in the ...

A new finding from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the learning process of associating cues ...

Christian Luscher, a neuroscientist at the University of Geneva, presenting on addiction at the Allen Institute. (Allen Insitute Photo / Erik Dinnel) Christian Luscher has spent years trying to figure ...

Nicotine addiction remains one of the most persistent public health challenges worldwide, driven by changes in the brain that ...