She’s trying to find medications that can prevent this activation and keep people from falling prey to “unseen” triggers ... become an influential model of addiction, called iRISA, or ...

The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains ... This acts on other nerve cells with opiate receptors and triggers a feeling of reward, that causes the mice to eat ...

The main difference between physical hunger and emotional eating is that emotional eating starts in the brain and includes sudden onset feelings of anxiety or sadness, specific cravings, not feeling ...

Image Credit: simon jhuan/Shutterstock.com A recent JAMA Psychiatry study investigates the effectiveness of semaglutide in reducing alcohol consumption and craving in adults with alcohol use ...

Now, research in mice shows that the neurons responsible for feelings of fullness are also those that trigger sugar cravings. In other words, there seems to be a neurological basis for our love of ...

AND IT WAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED IN JAMA PSYCHIATRY. SO IT FOUND THAT ONCE WEEKLY DOSE, LOW DOSE SEMAGLUTIDE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED ALCOHOL CRAVINGS, HEAVY DRINKING DAYS, AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN ...

The drug — the brand name for the GLP-1 agonist semaglutide — “significantly reduced weekly alcohol craving,” according to a study published Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Journal of the ...

However, these are the same brain cells that trigger a specific craving for sugar through a different mechanism. The study was conducted on mice and 30 healthy humans. In mice, it was observed ...

Ozempic, known for aiding weight loss, could also help in treating alcohol addiction, as a study in JAMA Psychiatry suggests. Participants with alcohol use disorder saw a reduction in binge ...

But the results add to evidence from animal studies and reports that people are finding drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy helpful to manage cravings, not just for food, but also for tobacco and alcohol.