One motivation for moving away from the chronic brain disease model, Wiers suggests, is stigma. Studies show calling addiction a 'chronic brain disease' does reduce the degree to which addicted ...

That doesn’t mean it is easy to gain control of the behaviors involved in addiction—but it is possible, and people do it every day. The disease model of addiction also suggests to people that ...

A paradigm-shifting study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of ...

And unlike most of the media and the addiction-treatment industry, they usually don’t think of it as a “brain disease.” That way of understanding addiction became popular after Alan I.

For patients with psychiatric conditions from addiction to mood disorders such as depression ... my team is identifying molecular changes associated with psychiatric disorders in people. We model ...

Anna talks to an addiction medicine specialist about what the latest research reveals about why people start using drugs and how to support them if they do. Dr. Nzinga Harrison, addiction medicine ...

Researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and affiliated organizations presented preclinical data for the α5-GABA-A receptor (α5-GABAAR) positive allosteric modulator GL-II-73 ...

A paradigm-shifting study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of ...