A thirteen-study collection in Frontiers in Adolescent Medicine shows that youth addiction risk emerges from the interplay of ...

If we make screens the villain, then we let the people who control children’s health care — Congress, insurers and health ...

The research is being used to understand conditions such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy ...

Optogenetics, a groundbreaking technique, enables researchers to control specific neurons using light, providing insights ...

American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to ...

In April 2022, at just 25 years old, Jack Ako tipped the scales at 47 stone (298.5kg). Virtually every part of his life had become an impossible task, as his friends and family worried about his ...

AMIT'S MOM BARELY recognized her son when she picked him up from college. He had lost roughly 20 pounds since his parents dropped him off nearly two years earlier. He looked disheveled, with unkempt ...

On a cold December night in 2023, the staff at Providence Milwaukie Hospital in Milwaukie, Ore., called local police. They wanted help getting one of their patients, a 26-year-old man named Jean ...

Newswise — A question has puzzled researchers and clinicians as worldwide cannabis use has risen: Why do certain people who try cannabis never develop a problem with addiction, while roughly one in 10 ...

To learn more about the biology underlying cocaine addiction, researchers analyzed almost 900 rats to map the genetic basis of behaviors associated with cocaine use, like taking the drug, taking ...

Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, and Lena Song present evidence from an experiment that answers two related questions: whether people are addicted to social media and, if so, the extent to which ...