One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other ...

You've probably heard about the controversy between the disease model of addiction and the choice model. Stanton Peele, a blogger here on the PT site, waxes eloquent on the topic. You may have even ...

A new study published in the journal Science Signaling has found that an immune system protein plays a central role in the ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

Why someone becomes addicted to a substance has long baffled scientists and philosophers. Now leading researchers are getting the clearest picture yet of how addiction works in the brain and body.

Some lessons we learn the hard way, as individuals and as a society. Early in her career, Dr. Anna Lembke says she made some mistakes treating patients because she “didn’t know anything about ...

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who struggled with substance abuse could stop if they simply wanted to. But ...

For decades, Americans have been told a simple story about addiction: taking drugs damages the brain—and the earlier in life children start using substances, the more likely they are to progress ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...