While pharmacological, behavioral and psychosocial treatments are available for substance
use disorders (SUDs), they are not always effective or well-tolerated. Neuromodulation (NM) …

A growing preclinical and clinical body of work on the effects of chronic drug use and drug
addiction has extended the scope of inquiry from the putative reward-related subcortical …

Chronic pain is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by sensory, cognitive,
and affective symptoms. Over the past 2 decades, researchers have made significant …

Understanding the brain circuitry that underlies reward is critical to improve treatment for
many common health issues, including obesity, depression, and addiction. Here we focus …

Given the high prevalence of individuals diagnosed with substance use disorder, along with
the elevated rate of relapse following treatment initiation, investigating novel approaches …

The comorbidity of depression and addiction has become a serious public health issue, and
the relationship between these two disorders and their potential mechanisms has attracted …

Background Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a leading cause of disability worldwide.
While several pharmacological and behavioral treatments for SUDs are available, these …

It is important to find new treatments for addiction due to high relapse rates despite current
interventions and due to expansion of the field with non-substance related addictive …

There is a growing view that certain foods, particularly those high in refined sugars and fats,
are addictive and that some forms of obesity can usefully be treated as a food addiction. This …

The ability to predict relapse is a major goal of drug addiction research. Clinical and
diagnostic measures are useful in this regard, but these measures do not fully and …