Also known as: gambling
Two neuroscience studies reveal brain mechanisms behind anxiety and compulsive behavior. One found restoring balance in an amygdala circuit reversed anxiety in mice, while another showed inflammation in the striatum makes behavior more deliberate.
Adial Pharmaceuticals completed demonstration batch production for AD04, meeting prespecified specifications and matching the prior Phase 2 dissolution profile. The step enables clinical and registration batch production for the planned Phase 3 trial.
GLP-1 drugs are still being studied for Alzheimer’s and addiction after semaglutide failed to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s. A 2025 abstract reported semaglutide slowed cognitive impairment in an Alzheimer’s model.
