Researchers have found that eating highly processed, sugary, fat-filled foods not only changes your body ... use drug addiction analogies to describe this “hijacking” of brain circuits to ...

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus discusses what addiction is, including what may cause it and how empathy is a ...

Research to date suggests that playing video games can change ... studies exploring brain regions associated with the reward system, and how these are related to video game addiction.

Researchers used brain scans and simple tests to track changes. What they found could make you rethink your phone habits.

People don’t usually develop an addiction or other problem with ... Over time, repeated opioid use can change your brain chemistry. Your brain adjusts to the dose you take and gets used to ...

But what might be news to you is that it also leads to major brain changes ... addiction recovery, and even warding off dementia—with hopefully more to come from this drug that operates between ...

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It may even cause changes in the brain, according to a new report published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.