Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors function in the brain and why they play a central role in pain relief, ...

About 27 million American adults, roughly the population of Texas, struggled with alcohol use disorder last year, according to the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. If you or someone you ...

Three-dimensional reconstruction of a single microglia, showing astrocyte-derived inclusions (green) within the phagosome (purple) and peripheral processes following cocaine self-administration and ...

Alcohol exposure before birth may quietly set the brain on a path toward risky drinking decades later.

In my previous post, I promised this post would describe the minority of users whose lives are taken over by cannabis. Although less common, given how many people begin using cannabis during ...

Whatever the reason for turning to drugs or alcohol was in the first place, the most important thing is that they found the ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...