Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

Playing video games may seem like a harmless way to unwind after a long day at work or school. However, gameplay can sometimes dip into something deeper and more consuming. As gaming technology has ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, ...

S1: I'm Andrew Bracken and this is Screen Time , featuring conversations about technology and kids in today's digital age. My kids are addicted to their screens. It's a common phrase many parents ...

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

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Summer break is here, which means school is out, no more homework, and it’s time to have fun. The lack of routine and scheduled activities, however, may pose ...

Matt Field receives research funding from the Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Alcohol Change UK, and the Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling. He is a trustee of ...

The roots of addiction risk may lie in how young brains function long before substance use begins, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine. The investigators found that children with a ...

“How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the animating question behind Owen Flanagan’s “What Is It Like to Be an Addict?” An emeritus professor of philosophy and neurobiology at ...