Addiction

In the current scenario, with an unabating urge to maintain good mental health, individuals seem quite aware of sanity and are much more likely to talk about it openly. More people are accessing care, which in turn, accounts for a notable rise in the number of cases. However, what is really steering this increase s...

The scientists from the Department of Forensic Medicine, of the Medical University of Vienna, surprisingly found that addictive cravings can be detectable even after death. This is due to a protein known as FosB, which is present in the reward centre of the brain. The protein gets altered in chronically ill people w...