A receptor long known for guiding brain development before birth also shapes how adults learn, determining how strongly the ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Addiction is more than just a habit—it’s a powerful force that rewires the brain, making it increasingly difficult to break free. Behavioral scientist Dr. Gino Collura joined Gayle ...

City University of New York researchers have identified the Smoothened receptor as a key regulator of how the adult brain locks in or updates learned behaviors. By controlling the timing of ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced a bit of fame in recent years, acting as a sort of buzzword to describe a ...

Alcohol addiction, also known as alcohol use disorder, is a serious and widespread mental health condition. It affects ...

Researchers have applied object recognition technology to track changes in brain cell structure and provide new insights into how the brain responds to heroin use, withdrawal and relapse. Object ...

Imagine that you can be two different people. That's not such an absurd idea. It's been around in psychoanalysis (starting with Freud) for over a century, and even contemporary cognitive science and ...

How Alarming Rise Of 'Brain Rot' Is Rewiring Young Minds Khaleej Times. Joanne Hunter, a single mother, recalls the day she ...