Addiction & Recovery

Researchers selectively erase drug-related associations in rats

After a new brain-scanning approach revealed that a seemingly vegetative young woman was actually conscious, she started down the road to a partial recovery

What's being called "nomophobia," the anxiety of not having your mobile phone with you, may be a real condition among teens, at least according to two recent studies out of South Korea, the world’s most connected nation. Larry Greenemeier reports

 

Greetings from Boston where the 21st annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society is underway.  Saturday and Sunday were packed with symposia, lectures and more than 400 posters.

Some researchers argue that it is too early to dismiss potential benefits

Adults who had been members of gangs in their adolescence had poorer outcomes on a variety of measures, including physical and mental health, than those who'd never been in a gang. Christie Nicholson reports

 

Other cities are taking note after Chicago restricts the sale and use of mentholated and electronic cigarettes

Can science help defeat the physical aftereffects of drinking too much alcohol—if not the regrets?

Developing a hangover doesn't prevent or even significantly delay the next drinking bout. Sophie Bushwick reports 

 

People with anorexia and other eating disorders have aberrant brain responses to food

Prescription painkiller abuse is the newest drug epidemic to sweep the U.S.

The rise and fall of the Beach Boys leader shows how crucial the brain's executive function is to creativity