Addiction brings about changes in the brain, but those changes do not reflect a pathological process. The pathways to addiction can be difficult to understand, because substance abuse, as a result ...

Many of these structural brain differences appeared to exist in childhood before any substance use, suggesting they may play a role in the risk of substance use initiation later in life ...

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In a comprehensive Genomic Press Interview, researchers from UTHealth Houston have uncovered crucial evidence that substance use disorders (SUDs) accelerate biological aging in the brain through ...

Accompanying the research article is an insightful editorial titled "The forgotten clockwork of the brain: Untangling accelerated aging in substance use disorders," authored by Dr. Julio Licinio ...

Now, nearly 1 in 5 American adults have an online sports-betting account, and according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ... very similar paths in the brain,” Levounis said.