The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines addiction as “a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment and an individual’s ...

Physical activity, thinking skills, and emotional regulation are evolutionarily intertwined, yet an "evolutionary bug" makes ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

Youngsters who once built things, played games, and read books are now immersed in one-dimensional, passive tidbits of ...

Learning is a complex process — and so is measuring it. Though research shows we have cause to be concerned about what ...

From Pong and Pac-Man to Minecraft and Fortnight, video games have always been a lot of fun. Sometimes, however, gamers become fixated, compulsive or — worse — spiral into a full-blown gaming disorder ...

Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — ...

Binge-watching increases poor sleep risk by 98% while costing over $1,200 annually through hidden spending triggers and ...

A new study by Scripps Research scientists has identified a brain region, the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), ...

Picture being put into a hot frying pan, he said, and then someone holding you down on that pan forever. The fiery, shooting ...

Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — essentially a remake of the legendary time-waster FarmVille — recently smashed ...