From 18 trips to rehab and stints of homelessnessto making a film with his father about getting clean, Nick Reiner's life has ...

A new study by Scripps Research reveals that alcohol dependence disrupts two signaling pathways in a stress-related part of ...

The American Medical Association has been sounding alarms about cannabis health risks, and one of the physicians leading that ...

Once cannabis has hijacked the reward center, daily users have no destination in mind. Here's how parents maintain empathy for an addicted child.

ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

Scientists say their new insights into how a key brain protein works could help resolve a long-standing question in molecular ...

Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall, are widely used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including in children. In the U.S., about 3.5 million children aged 3 ...

More people are around for the holidays because of treatment options. That success is at risk unless Congress acts ...

WashU Medicine researchers find stimulant medications don’t affect attention-controlling regions of the brain, as previously ...

What is the neuropsychological basis for the brain's ever-changing contextualized goals? I explore this question from the perspective of the Affect Management Framework (AMF).

New research suggests that prescription stimulants for ADHD don't actually improve attention directly. They work on different pathways in the brain that support attention. .

After a decade of treating patches of eczema with topical steroids, something changed when Kelly Barta stopped using the ...