Chess Moves Against Craving: Training the Brain That Has to Say No

Chess Moves Against Craving: Training the Brain That Has to Say No

An exploratory trial reported by Scienmag on November 13, 2026, in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, found chess-based cognitive remediation in 41 abstinent inpatients with alcohol use disorder changed supplementary motor area reactivity during alcohol cue exposure over six weeks, with authors stressing validation is still needed.

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Chess Training Modulates Brain Cue Reactivity in Alcohol Use Disorder Study — Scienmag, November 13, 2026, reporting Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

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