A person's drinking patterns at age 18 predict the trajectory of their drinking behavior into adulthood, and that trajectory ...

Alcohol does not simply relax the mind. It rewires it. With repeated use, drinking can splinter the brain’s carefully coordinated networks into scattered, competing circuits that chase the next drink ...

Mary Schneider and Alexander Converse, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led an interdisciplinary study to explore ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Initiating heavy drinking by 11th grade was associated with higher average weekly alcohol consumption later in ...

New research using rhesus monkeys suggests that the brain’s relationship with alcohol may begin forming long before a person ...

A study on mice identified a group of neurons in the central amygdala region of the brain that display a unique pattern of ...

Alcohol exposure before birth may quietly set the brain on a path toward risky drinking decades later.

Drawing from research on addiction in neuroscience, psychology, and clinical practice, the following list identifies several key behavioral patterns associated with addiction: Source: ...

A new longitudinal analysis suggests that specific PTSD symptoms, particularly hyperarousal, drive hazardous drinking in ...