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Cocaine is the second most commonly used illicit substance in Australia, after marijuana.
High fructose corn syrup in food and drinks has long been linked to rising rates of child and teen obesity. New evidence suggests it increases the risks of opioid addiction and overdose too.
Drug addiction isn’t about bad habits, fear of withdrawal or a selfish search for pleasure. It’s about the brain.
Why we love our phones so much might be related to our basic yearnings as human beings, explains a scholar, who is also a pastor.
Research has yielded new insights into Parkinson’s disease, and treatments are expanding. But a shortage of doctors trained in the disease leaves a gap in care.
2017 marks the 200th anniversary since the 1817 publication of Dr James Parkinson’s seminal work on what he called the “Shaking Palsy”.
The festive season is an intense time of year. Neuroscience can shed some light on what it does to our brains.
Are you impulsive and easily bored? You may be a thrill seeker.
Smoking causes 96,000 premature deaths a year in the UK. The fact that it protects against Parkinson’s disease is not a reason to take up the habit.
Scientists have found that there are many physical and mental benefits to volunteering.
College students who take stimulants such as Adderall to get an academic edge might be setting themselves up unknowingly to a vicious cycle of substance abuse and addiction.
Dopamine: a powerful substance that is much more than just a pleasure chemical.
Children’s insatiable curiosity and search for new knowledge is getting lost somewhere along the way. We’ve mislaid the art of the question.
Are you a “carb craver” or “chocaholic”? We often use language associated with addiction to describe our relationships with food. But is it really possible to be addicted to certain types of food?
There may be a chemical secret to getting kids interested in learning – and it’s one that’s created and produced by our own bodies rather than in a lab.
The landscape of pharmaceutical development for mental disorders has changed over recent years, with pharma companies abandoning traditional neuroscience drug discovery programs and turning instead to…
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