Addiction causes significant changes in motivational, emotional, and decision-making brain circuits. Rather than family, friends, work, food, water, and sex, the motivational hierarchy is upended ...

Gambling problems in the UK and worldwide are becoming more prevalent, driven by the growth of gambling sites not on GamStop, sports betting, and other forms of gambling. With these industries ...

As Texas sets to crack down on the recreational use of cannabis, state leaders are opting to invest $50 million in another plant with purported medicinal benefits – a psychedelic called ibogaine ...

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic break food addiction cycles while the junk food industry is fighting back by engineering "hyper-palatable" foods to bypass medications, some doctors claim.

What's really happening in our brain when we fall in love? Neil and Beth discuss the science of love and teach you some useful vocabulary. Aww, I didn’t know you were such a romantic, Neil! But ...

People complain about pop's brain-rot lately, like TikTok invented musical candy. It didn't. Pop has always been candy first. Youth is cheap to sell, easy to polish.

In time, the brain begins to rely on the drug not just for pleasure, but also to regulate emotions and cognitive functions, which in turn, increases dependence and reinforces the cycle of addiction.

Mix 102.3 radio star Hayley Pearson opens up on the death of her brother Ryan She’s best known as Mix 102.3’s bubbly early morning radio presenter but Hayley Pearson has opened up about inner ...