You’ve likely seen some of the headlines: psychedelics aren’t just for getting high, they’re showing real medical promise. In some fields (like PTSD and addiction), they’re even being heralded as the next frontier of mental health.

Drug addiction carries an extremely high risk of relapse, as cravings can be reignited by minor stimuli even long after one has stopped using. Previously, this phenomenon was attributed to a decline in the function of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which ...

Major scientific discoveries can arise from simple decisions: say, by simply looking where virtually no one else has. Such was the case for Ines Ibañez-Tallon, a research associate professor in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at The Rockefeller ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call addiction. We now know that addiction is largely a brain ...

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Researchers are investigating whether GLP-1 drugs could be used to treat addiction disorders, following patient reports of reduced cravings.