Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs. Disentangling them requires understanding how memories are formed.

To dissect exactly how drugs of abuse hijack the brain's natural reward system, my team is comparing how seeking different types of rewards changes the neurons carrying reward memories.

A new study investigates how ketamine infusion affects different parts of the brain and could be an effective pharmaceutical ...

Alcohol and drugs can do serious damage to your brain but how long does it take for the organ's dopamine levels to return to ...

They were designed to treat diabetes, then prescribed for weight loss, and now—as researchers are finding—they might hold the ...

Flipping the switch on fewer than 500 neurons dramatically reduces the alcohol consumption of mice. This novel finding could ...

Ketamine leads to increased communication between areas of the brain that don't typically engage with each other, new ...

For example, about 72% of people suffering from substance use disorders report using multiple substances, frequently together.To better understand how polysubstance use affects the brain, my team ...