Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher said that the focus should be on parents at home and even the school district when it comes to children getting addicted to social media.

“Addiction is an important clinical term with a troubled and weighty history,” said Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist and coauthor of a brief explainer of what dopamine does and doesn’t do. “People ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced a bit of fame in recent years, acting as a sort of buzzword to describe a ...

(CNN) — Maybe you’d like to spend time on hobbies or hang out with friends, but nothing feels as exciting and engaging as it used to –– so you just squander another hour on social media. Your problem ...

Lee Fernandes, 48, is an Addiction Specialist at UKAT, an organization which offers in-patient rehab treatment for people ...

For Hannah Blass, it all began with a pair of Adidas Stan Smith trainers. Aged 23 at the time and at university, Hannah says her family never had the money to buy expensive clothes while she was ...

Eating junk-food can be addictive, and apparently, it causes brain changes that look eerily similar to drug addiction. That's the message not only from the rapidly fattening waistlines of Americans ...

A therapist who treats phone addictions says the withdrawal symptoms people suffer are similar to those experienced by drug addicts. Lee Fernandes, 48, is an Addiction Specialist at UKAT, an ...