Is an addiction taking over your life? With any problem it is very difficult to acknowledge there is a problem and breaking the habit seems impossible. It can take over your life and cause problems in relationships, careers and finances. Seeking help...

Tranquillity Before the second half of the 19th century, the dominant medical and popular notions of disease rested on a humoral theory, first put forward by Hippocrates and Aristotle, and then Galen, later in the 2nd century AD. According to this...

If the induction of appetites and cravings, which has been hitherto seen as psychological dependence, is not in fact any more psychological than the physical dependence that underlies withdrawal, is there any other psychology involved? There almost...

In 1954, Olds and Milner discovered that there appeared to be pleasure spots in the brain. Implanting electrodes in certain areas of the brain, through which a rat can give itself an electric current by pressing on a lever, produced in most brain areas...

Over the past two decades there appears to have been a shift within health care from an expectation that patients with medical problems should entrust themselves passively to the care of physicians to an expectation that they should co-operate in their...