Research Articles
The Hijacked Memory: How Drugs Rewire Your Brain to Crave and Relapse
Explore how drugs hijack the brain's learning machinery through circuit and synaptic plasticity mechanisms, creating powerful drug-related memories that trigger relapse.
The Addicted Brain: How Neuroscience Revolutionized Our Understanding of Addiction
Explore how neuroscience has transformed our understanding of addiction from moral failing to chronic brain disorder, examining the three-stage cycle and neurobiological mechanisms.
The Hijacked Highway: Mapping the Brain's Addiction Circuits
Explore how scientists are mapping the neural circuits hijacked by addiction, revealing how drugs corrupt the brain's reward, decision-making, and habit systems.
Japan's Battle Against Addiction: Research and Remedies
Exploring Japan's comprehensive research strategy against addiction, from basic neuroscience to innovative treatments like the non-opioid painkiller ADRIANA.
Addiction: A Disease of Self-Control
Exploring the science behind addiction as a brain disorder affecting self-control mechanisms, with research findings and treatment innovations.
Science of Addiction: Lost in the Brain's Labyrinth
Exploring the neuroscience of addiction, from dopamine pathways to groundbreaking astrocyte research and modern treatment frontiers.