These brain scans show the frightening reality of taking too much cocaine. The images show how the class A drug can “eat away” at your brain, leaving you with disabilities — and at worst, dead.

On the left is your brain on sugar. On the right side is your brain on drugs. Notice the similarities? For comparison, this image shows PET scans of obese and cocaine-addicted brains. Notice that ...

Scans reveal how cocaine ‘eats away’ at your brain in just months. A scan of a regular cocaine user has been shared by doctors, showing the class A drug as it “eats away” at a patient’s ...

THESE brain scans show the frightening reality of taking too much cocaine. The images show how the class A drug can “eat away” at your brain, leaving you with disabilities – and a… ...

Dr. Robert Lustig thinks America needs to go to rehab for sugar addiction. According to brain scans, sugar is as addictive as cocaine, the California-based endocrinologist told CBS News’ &#82… ...

When all the scans are complete, the teams goes over them, specifically studying the nucleus accumbens, located in the middle of the brain. In their first round of the scanning study, MacNiven’s team ...

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Maybe give it a miss – probably better in the long run (Getty Images/EyeEm) Cocaine, as the late, great Robin Williams once put it, is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money.

You’ve seen the headlines: This is your brain on love. Or God. Or envy. Or happiness. And they’re reliably accompanied by articles boasting pictures of color-drenched brains— scans capturing ...

N ew evidence suggests fructose—the simple sugar present in fruit and fruit juices—may be messing with your brain and appetite in a way that actually makes you hungrier.. Dr. Kathleen Page, MD ...

The top row shows the actual images participants looked at, while the bottom row shows an A.I. recreation of each image based on the participant's brain scans. Edited from Takagi and Nishimoto ...