Addiction is a global problem. It is a human problem. It is a non-discriminatory offender. It does not care about your gender identification, your financial status, your skin color, your sexual ...

Are you at risk for addictive behaviors? Some people are genetically predisposed to addictive behavior. It is common for people who have addictive behaviors to be depressed. Often people who have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ultraprocessed foods like donuts and pizza are particularly rewarding to a person's brain. For foods to be potentially addictive, ...

Medically reviewed by Kira Graves, PhD Key Takeaways Aversion therapy tries to help people stop unwanted behaviors by linking ...

Female hormones—namely progesterone and estrogen—are underrecognized contributors to addictive behavior in women. Women are more vulnerable to developing addictions than men. In particular, women ...

The study, published in JAMA, followed teens for years and evaluated addictive behaviors, as well as suicidality. Screen addiction and suicidal behaviors are linked for teens, a study shows If you or ...

James Kimmel, Jr., is a lecturer of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, a lawyer, and the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. He is the creator of The ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Articles in this report were published with editorial independence. The collection was made possible by the support of WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. The recent surge in the use of GLP-1 ...

If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline via call, text or chat. A new study finds that addiction to social media, mobile phones and video games is linked to ...