This post was coauthored by Gabriella P. Oettinger and Juan M. Dominguez, Ph.D. As we begin the new school year, the importance of understanding the challenges and risks that students face becomes ...

LSD, psilocybin and other psychedelic drugs are often considered as one group. But a new study shows that each drug affects the brain differently. The findings could have implications for the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Scientists have spent decades trying to get medicine across the blood-brain barrier. Two treatments for a rare genetic disorder have already made it through. Now an experimental Alzheimer’s drug is ...