TMS, and gene therapy offer hope for alcohol addiction recovery. Discover how these options could change addiction treatment.

or indirect (i.e., there is a gene in that region that causes tobacco addiction, which in turn causes lung cancer) remains to be determined. Until scientists actually focus on specific genes in ...

Living with our Genes is more style than substance. The first few chapters concentrate on important personality traits such as thrill-seeking, neuroticism and addiction, for which many researchers ...

Opioid use disorder is associated with more than 350,000 deaths annually worldwide. Guided by the need for an increased ...

Opioid use disorder is associated with more than 350,000 deaths annually worldwide. Guided by the need for an increased ...

Some current models of addiction emphasize the causative role of individual variations in biology or genes that make a substance or experience feel more or less pleasurable. Many models of ...

Opioid use disorder is associated with more than 350,000 deaths annually worldwide. Guided by the need for an increased ...

The brain disease model of addiction has dominated public and scientific discourse on addiction (termed substance use disorder [SUD] in the DSM-5) over the past 3 decades. The model framed addiction ...

Certain genes can increase an individual's susceptibility to alcohol addiction by affecting how the body processes alcohol. However, it's important to note that having a genetic predisposition ...

A new discovery about soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages reveals a troubling truth that goes beyond simple calorie ...