Addiction & Recovery

Guided imagination exercises help the body repair itself after surgery

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Certain painful experiences are more likely to precede depressive episodes than others. And some forms of loss can trigger depression more quickly than previously realized

Applying a weak electric current to a particular region of a smoker’s brain could curb nicotine cravings