MINNEAPOLIS/ST.PAUL (December 9, 2004) – A University of Minnesota researcher developed a computational model of addiction which can be used to make predictions about human behavior, animal behavior, ...

It is generally accepted that there exist two main categories of addiction, namely chemical addiction (e.g., addiction to drugs) and behavioral addiction (e.g., addiction to mobile phones or social ...

During her training as a clinical psychologist, Prof. Andrea King was taught the standard theory about alcoholism: Individuals who drink to excess develop tolerance to the substance, requiring them to ...

When there is physical pain, for example, a recurring gut problem, people tend to google what the symptoms are and they’re likely to read about bowel cancer on the first click. The same goes for ...

1) https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/1036/alternative-models-of-addiction#articles – This is a link to a collection of 19 articles published in Frontiers ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Leading researchers, clinicians and policymakers from around the world will meet next month in Calgary, Alberta, for a conference devoted to recovery capital, a pioneering theory in ...

“Different theories about addictions have existed for a long time, but had not yet been connected with learning and memory,” said David Redish, Ph. D., Department of Neuroscience, University of ...

Around August 2000, when Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche broke up, every other lesbian couple that was close to me and/or my family headed to Splitsville within the same month. I even recall jokes ...

The story of the microbiome is often portrayed as blissful mutualism: Throughout human evolution, the trillions of microbes colonizing every square inch of our bodies found ways to make their ...