Having a family member or a close friend with a gambling problem puts people at greater risk of developing one, too, a new ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Internet use is part of daily life for many people in work, social interaction, entertainment, shopping, and many other ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Physical exercise is one of the main recommendations for maintaining good health. However, when practiced compulsively and ...

New Swinburne-led research has found that the use of mobile devices by primary school-aged children for gaming, social media ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

As growing evidence shows that climate change will influence nearly every aspect of our health, a School of Social Work researcher is the first to explore how climate change may affect individuals who ...

Despite significant advances in addiction science, a persistent and critical challenge remains: the vast chasm between the ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to addictive behavior and tendencies, finds a new study by UCL researchers. The findings, published in PLOS Mental ...