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Everything We Know About Drug Addiction Is Wrong

Photo credit: Addiction isn’t necessarily caused just by drugs themselves. Kamira/Shutterstock

Ask most people what causes drug addiction, and they’ll probably say drugs. According to this line of conventional wisdom, the pharmacological properties of substances like heroin, cocaine and crystal meth act as chemical hooks which cause users to become addicted once a certain level of consumption has been reached. While this may be true, it doesn’t tell the whole story, and offers no explanation as to why some people feel the need to repeatedly use drugs in the first place while others don’t.

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Genetically Speaking, You’re More Like Your Dad

You may have inherited your mother’s eyes, but, genetically speaking, you use more DNA passed down from your father. That’s the conclusion of a new study on mice that researchers say likely applies to all mammals.

We humans get one copy of each gene from mom and one from dad (ignoring those pesky sex chromosomes) – that hasn’t changed. The same is true for all mammals. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that mom and dad genes are equally active in creating who we are.

The anatomy of pain

If this picture makes you feel uncomfortable, you feel empathic pain. This sensation acitvates the same brain regions as real pain. Credit: Kai Weinsziehr for Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components –

These Haunting Photos Are Empowering People To Talk About Depression

Twenty one-year-old photographer Edward Honaker documents his own depression in powerful self-portraits. The series of black and white images illustrates the photographer’s experience with depression and anxiety.

Origin of ISIS

In this episode of Truth in Media, Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media. Swann takes on the central issue of whether or not ISIS was created by “inaction” by the United States government or by “direct” action.

Autism genes are in all of us, new research reveals

New light has been shed on the genetic relationship between autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and ASD-related traits in the wider population, by a team of international researchers including academics from the University of Bristol, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Charles Michel condemns ‘blind, violent and cowardly’ attacks in Brussels

Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide attack at airport and another explosion on metro train at Maelbeek. Three days of national mourning declared. Public transport starting to resume

• 14 dead and 92 injured in double explosion at Brussels airport
• ‘About 20’ dead and 106 injured in blast on metro train at Maelbeek station
• Highest terror alert, level 4, is reinstated
• Rail services running again in Brussels, night buses and tram 93 running tonight
• Advice to stay indoors has now been lifted

Syria’s heritage in ruins: before-and-after pictures

Umayyad mosque, Aleppo – pictured in 2012, before fighting destroyed it in 2013. Photograph: Alamy

They were sleepy tree-lined boulevards where people lived and worked, time-worn markets where they came to trade and exquisitely detailed mosques where, throughout the ages, they prayed.