This longitudinal study aims to scan 300 young people aged between 14 and 24 to see how their brains change as they grow older, linking data with results from saliva and blood samples, interviews, questionnaires, and a range of mental tasks.
This original longitudinal pilot study helps understand the neural processes behind first year university students' drinking.
This study suggests that young people who drink to excess are at risk of functional and structural brain damage, which may have long lasting adverse consequences.
This study suggests that young people who drink to excess are at risk of functional and structural brain damage, which may have long lasting adverse consequences.
This study found that addiction may result from abnormal brain circuitry in the area that controls decision making.
Collaboration between Japanese and Canadian researchers has established that addiction may result from abnormal brain circuitry in the area that controls decision making.
This study explains how bath salts cause dangerous effects in the brain.
This study found that a gene known as RASGRF-2 plays a crucial role in controlling how alcohol stimulates the brain to release dopamine, triggering feelings of reward.
Reuters reports that scientists in London have found a genetic variation that may play a role in binge drinking in teenagers.
This study published in The Journal of Neuroscience shows that teenagers who binge drink risk trapping their brains in permanent adolescence and lay the groundwork for alcoholism.