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The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.

Scientists have identified a tiny brain circuit in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) that keeps alcohol users ...

Researchers at Scripps identified a brain circuit in the paraventricular thalamus that links alcohol use to relief from ...

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The Film Stage was born in the City of Buffalo. For those living in or near the Western New York city, the Buffalo ...

Addiction is a complex psychological and neurological condition shaped by conditioning and reinforcement. It develops over ...

Places like Minnesota Recovery Connection can help to provide the support people need as they walk their roads to recovery.

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CUSMA, the free trade deal between Canada, the USA, and Mexico, is up for renewal on July 1, 2026, and that could disrupt ...

Kambale Musavuli of the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa explains how eastern Congo is facing a de facto annexation by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, with U.S.-backed forces driving a war ...