The brain’s reward network is a group of structures that control motivation, pleasure and other behaviors that bring satisfaction. It includes the prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, caudate, ...
Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...
Thinking positive increased a specific brain region's activity and might have heightened immune response after a shot.
A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain ...
Why do so many people relapse after quitting cocaine? A new study from The Hebrew University reveals that a specific "anti-reward" brain circuit becomes hyperactive during withdrawal-driving ...
A neural circuit that processes motivation and reward seems to act as a "brake" when faced with an unpleasant task, a study suggests. Elke Meitzel via Getty Images Many of us struggle to start a ...
In a highly novel study published in Current Biology, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, describe how two major neuronal ...
Hunger can drive a motivational state that leads an animal to a successful pursuit of a goal -- foraging for and finding food. In a highly novel study, researchers describe how two major neuronal ...
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