Discover the impact of dopamine on the brain's reward circuit, from pleasure to addiction, and how to find balance.

Zuoxin Wang (left), professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Mohamed Kabbaj (right), professor of ...

Addiction can be defined as compulsive drug use despite wanting to stop. The unwilling addict wants the drug but also wants not to want it. From the outside, drug use looks like a choice but it is not ...

Food designed to activate reward pathways in the brain may already be overtaking more well-known addictive substances, with ...

Researchers at the U of A Health Sciences Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction found a medication that reduced craving for cocaine without affecting desire for sugar. University of Arizona Health ...

That innocent-looking donut might be triggering more powerful brain responses than the vodka it’s sometimes paired with. While society readily acknowledges alcohol’s addictive potential, we still ...