Research Articles
Seeing the Cure: How Brain Scans Are Revolutionizing the Fight Against Addiction
Explore how advanced brain imaging technologies like PET and fMRI are transforming addiction medication development by providing unprecedented insights into the brain's reward system.
The Hijacked Brain: Decoding Addiction from Neurons to Drug Policy
Exploring the neuroscience of addiction, its biological basis, and how modern science is shaping drug policy interventions.
The Silent Saboteur: How Your Brain Engineers Relapse
Exploring the neuroscience behind addiction relapse and how the brain's rewiring creates a self-sustaining cycle of substance dependence.
Hijacking the Brain's Reward System: The Neuroscience Behind Addiction
Exploring how addiction rewires the brain's reward circuitry through the three-stage cycle of binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect, and preoccupation/anticipation.
Primate Perspectives: How Monkey Brains Illuminate the Hidden Battle Against Addiction
Exploring how nonhuman primate PET neuroimaging reveals the neurobiology of addiction through cocaine biodistribution studies.
The Labyrinth Within: Mapping Addiction's Grip on the Brain
Exploring the neuroscience of addiction and how modern research is revealing new pathways to understanding and treatment.