Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs.

Rigorous study design and analytical standards are required to generate reliable findings in healthcare from artificial intelligence (AI) research. One crucial but often overlooked aspect is the ...

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus discusses what addiction is, including what may cause it and how empathy is a key part of treating it.

Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards . This includes eating tasty meals, drinking something refreshing, sexual ...

The society, which celebrates outstanding scholars who exemplify academic and personal excellence, recognized its new members ...

Ten Johns Hopkins University PhDs and postdoctoral researchers were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor ...

Did you know that flies hate cocaine? These well-adapted creatures have evolved to avoid things that might do them harm by ...

In a new JNeurosci paper, Adrian Rothenfluh and colleagues from the University of Utah developed a fruit fly model of cocaine ...

For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The new ...

In particular, it measures the degree of dispersion of data around the sample's mean. Investors use variance to see how much risk an investment carries and whether it will be profitable.

Economists Question G.O.P. Bill: Why Increase the Deficit in Good Times? Huge deficits are already making bond investors nervous. Economists warn that could make it harder to respond to future ...