We all react to environmental cues that tell us it’s time to eat, like the scent of fries wafting through the air. These cues stimulate your brain’s mesolimbic reward pathway. You crave food, seek it, ...

One ad that's like that for me was one in which we see an egg sizzling on a pan with a voice over warning, “This is your brain on drugs.” With the power of the internet’s eternal memory ...

Johnson: Psilocybin is a so-called classic psychedelic, so it's in the same category as drugs like LSD and works in the brain in basically the same way. Narrator: When you take psilocybin ...

"This is your brain on drugs," the old anti-drug admonition says, and now a new study has found there's something to that chestnut. Opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in ...

Study reveals diabetes drugs could slash your risk of developing brain diseases by up to 31%. Here's what you need to know about this game-changing discovery.

However, recent studies have shown that repeated drug use leads to long-lasting changes in the brain that undermine voluntary control. This, combined with new knowledge of how environmental ...

The sleep aid Ambien could be allowing toxic proteins to pollute the brain, potentially increasing a person’s risk of ...

Ketamine is what scientists call a dirty drug. That means it doesn't just target one system in your brain, but dozens. It has a weak effect on opiate receptors in the dopamine system, which drugs ...