In 1997, Alan Leshner, then director of the National Institute for Drug Abuse, wrote an article entitled “Addiction Is a Brain Disease and It Matters.” That eight-word title became the perfect sound ...

January is Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month, which is designed to raise awareness about those suffering with substance ...

A recent study of a million people with 14 psychiatric disorders showed these disorders fell into five genetic clusters.

A new doctoral dissertation from the University of Turku shows that gambling disorder is rooted in specific brain networks ...

Substance use disorders (SUDs) present a formidable challenge to public health globally, with recent statistics from the U.S.

A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain ...

For weeks, Steele, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, and members of his lab have traveled to an addiction treatment center in Middletown, Connecticut, where they are ...

Addiction is an umbrella term that reflects qualities of substance use disorder, characterized by an inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences. However, addiction is not a ...

An international research team led by the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has shown that the cerebellum, contrary to what was thought, fulfils functions that go beyond the motor sphere and can be ...