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Drinking alcohol every day can speed up brain aging by one week per session, according to a study of more than 17,000 people

Scientists studied 17,308 human brains from the UK Biobank to see how alcohol affects brains. The brain ages one week per drinking session.

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Neural activity that reflects the intention to drink alcohol is observed in the prefrontal cortex and is blunted in rats with a family history of excessive drinking, according to new research. This insight could lead to novel treatments for alcohol use disorders.

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How does the brain process rewards? Researchers are investigating how the brain responds differently to two commonly ingested rewards -- food and alcohol -- to understand how they alter neural activity and behavior.

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Learning about addiction: How opioids reshape your brain

PHILADELPHIA — None of us has the brain we were born with. Brains grow and adapt. This process, called neuroplasticity, doesn’t end when you step out of the classroom. Even habits — reaching for cookies when stressed out, keeping your head down during staff meetings — cut “trails” in the brain throughout life that can be hard to overcome.

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How Opioids Hijack The Brain | The Fix

Addiction experts and people who use opioids discuss how opioids impact their brains.

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Since the early promulgation of addiction as a brain disease, I have warned that such a model could increase rather than decrease addiction-related stigma if not also accompanied by a parallel understanding of the neurobiology of addiction recovery.

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This Is What Your Addicted Brain Looks Like

The fine line between feeling good and developing a dependency.

Even when we know that something—drugs, alcohol, smoking, checking our Instagram for the thirtieth time that day—might be bad for us, the pull can be too strong to resist. While addiction is often described as the compulsive seeking of, and partaking in, behaviours despite negative consequences, addiction can also be seen as a disorder of the brain’s reward system. To best understand how addiction works, we need to understand a bit about this system.