The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause an immense psychosocial strain worldwide.
Excessive use of the internet during these psychologically trying times, fueled by physical …

Many recognize that several behaviors potentially affecting the reward circuitry in human
brains lead to a loss of control and other symptoms of addiction in at least some individuals …

Epidemiological studies find that psychiatric disorders, including mental disorders and
substance use disorders, are common among adults and highly comorbid. Integrated …

For many years, scientists believed that the adolescent brain was essentially an adult one.
Over the last decade, however, neurology and neuroscience have revealed that the teen …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder mostly
affecting the aging population over sixty. Cardinal symptoms including, tremors, muscle …

Global treatment of drug addiction costs society billions of dollars annually, but current
psychopharmacological therapies have not been successful at desired rates. The increasing …

Recent research suggests that romantic love may sometimes be literally addictive. Although
the exact nature of the relationship between love and addiction has been described in …

309 Molecular role of dopamine in anhedonia linked to reward deficiency syndrome (RDS) and
anti- reward systems Mark S. Gold8, K Page 1 309 Molecular role of dopamine in anhedonia …

Converging evidence from both animal and human studies have implicated hedonic eating
as a driver of both binge eating and obesity. The construct of food addiction has been used …

The dopamine transporter (DAT) is responsible for terminating dopamine (DA) signaling and
is the primary site of cocaine's reinforcing actions. Cocaine self-administration has been …