but the adaptations that are responsible for these effects are different from those that underlie addiction. Figure 1: Drug addiction as a disease of the brain. Chronic exposure to drugs of abuse ...

Now, researchers found that these drugs also affect rodent brains in other ways. Sahana is a science journalist and an intern at The Scientist, with a background in neuroscience and microbiology. She ...

Teenagers get hooked on drugs because their brains are wired differently, suggests a new study. Many differences appeared to exist in the brain structure of adolescents before any substance use ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus looked into the impact of recent and lifetime cannabis ...

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A new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a branch of the US Department of Health and ...

A healthier brain could one day be just a snort away: bacteria that colonize the nose have been engineered to ferry drugs to the brains ... you can minimize side effects and reduce the burden ...