Here’s how to create your personalized toolkit for a healthy mood boost with “dopamine menus” catered to you and your routine ...

But researchers say this is simply not how the system works: dopamine circuits are complex and varied, it’s not as though there is a single dial in the brain that turns dopamine levels up or down.

However, these effects of dopamine have largely been attributed to its actions in striatal regions of the brain, even though ...

Dopamine is a crucial neurotransmitter involved in our brain’s reward system. It plays a central role in motivation, as well as executive function (which includes attention, decision-making ...

Using a novel deep learning approach, we evaluated the predictive power of the functional connectome during various states (resting state, movie-watching, and n-back) on episodic memory and working ...

Your ancestors released dopamine when they found a water hole," Breuning says. "The expectation of a reward triggers a good feeling in the mammal brain, and releases the energy you need to reach ...

A new study published in Psychopharmacology suggests that while teenage exposure to THC, the main psychoactive component of ...

Because substances of abuse act directly on the reward center of the brain to deliver their high—this involves speedy and intense release of the neurotransmitter dopamine—addiction can be seen ...

The Cult of Fitness column dives into wonderful, weird world of fitness trends and why they endure. I’ve heard several of my friends’ new year’s resolutions by now and, for the most part ...