Tag: Addiction
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes...
Karla Kaun, Brown University
Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as...
Colleges face gambling addiction among students as sports betting spreads
Jason W. Osborne, Miami University
Three out of four college students have gambled in the past year, whether legally...
To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close...
Debra J. Rosenthal, John Carroll University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
How did abuse get baked into the restaurant industry?
Ellen T. Meiser, University of Hawaii at Hilo and Eli R. Wilson, University of New Mexico
When the The...
A boon for sports fandom or a looming mental health crisis?...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
A lifelong sports fan, I grew up hearing tales of sports figures felled by gambling...
Access to sports betting in the US has exploded since 2018...
Joshua B. Grubbs, Bowling Green State University and Shane Kraus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
For most of U.S....
Gen Z smartphone addiction can boost compulsive buying – but businesses...
Nisreen Ameen, Royal Holloway University of London
People born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s – so-called generation Z...
Why it’s important to think about social media use as a...
Amanda Baughan, University of Washington
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I had an unfortunate Saturday routine....
EXPLORING NATURE
Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before....
