Dopamine Detox: Analyzing Its Effectiveness
Dopamine detox trend analyzed against actual neuroscience. What Anna Lembke, Kent Berridge, Wolfram Schultz, and Cal Newport research really shows...
April 2026
August 2025
What Is the Opioid Crisis? Analyzing Its Causes and Effects
The opioid crisis killed over 500,000 Americans between 1999 and 2019. Understand the three waves, the neuroscience of addiction, Purdue Pharma's...
March 2025
Understanding Addiction: Neuroscience and Policy Insights
A deep look at the neuroscience of addiction, the dopamine system, how tolerance works, what the opioid crisis reveals about pharmaceutical...
November 2024
Intermittent Reinforcement: Unpredictable Rewards Explained
Intermittent reinforcement explains why slot machines, social media likes, and even toxic relationships can be impossible to quit.
September 2024
Understanding the Neuroscience Behind Sugar Addiction
Sugar activates the same dopamine pathways as cocaine. Understanding the neuroscience of sugar addiction — and what's hype versus real — can help...
July 2024
Social Media's Influence on Brain Function and Behavior
Social media platforms are engineered to exploit fundamental brain systems. What neuroscience and psychology actually know about how social media...
June 2024
Alcohol's Neuroscience: Effects on the Brain
Alcohol affects nearly every neurotransmitter system in the brain. Understanding the neuroscience of alcohol — from the first drink to dependency —...
December 2023
Addiction: Understanding the Neuroscience of Compulsion
What actually happens in the brain during addiction? Understand the neuroscience of dopamine, reward hijacking, withdrawal, craving, and why...
October 2023
Exploring the Science Behind Addiction and the Brain
Addiction is not a moral failure or a simple lack of willpower. Explore the neuroscience of the dopamine reward pathway, the Rat Park experiment,...
May 2022
The Science Behind Addiction and Its Mechanisms
Addiction explained: from the dopamine reward system and prediction error neurons to the brain disease model controversy, Rat Park, the opioid...