Addiction & Recovery

A lack of structural online boundaries tempts users into spending countless hours on the Web

Young girls who have been sexually abused are at far greater risk of picking up their first drink or using drugs as preteens, a new study finds

Guided imagination exercises help the body repair itself after surgery

Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, is being explored as a therapeutic tool to improve the lives of people with a life-threatening illness

Managing editor Sandra Upson introduces the May/June 2013 issue of Scientific American MIND

If you are in a bad mood don't try to comfort yourself with unhealthy food. Christie Nicholson reports

Restoring the brain's flexibility may help addicts act on their desire to quit

Traumatic memories persist when our nighttime memory-erasing process fails

Impulsivity arises from a tendency to want small imminent rewards more than big future benefits. How can we correct our skewed values to care for our future selves?

Recent research has changed the way clinicians treat hoarding as well as refuted popular assumptions about people with excessive clutter

Join us for a live online chat with Randy Frost of Smith College and Lee Shuer on compulsive hoarding