Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works. A recent study suggests it works ...

From depression to post-traumatic stress disorder, psychedelic drugs combined with therapy might ease symptoms. Once a counterculture outcast, these drugs are undergoing a renaissance in medicine for ...

Scientists exploring how the brain responds to stress discovered molecular changes that can influence behavior long after an ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

A new finding from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the learning process of associating cues with rewards can be altered by increased or decreased activity of a specific ...

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Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug with promising clinical applications for treating mood disorders and substance abuse ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...