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Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...
Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...
A new interdisciplinary study from BYU, opens an angle of neuroimmune research that could potentially lead to better medical ...
New research shows it can tame other addictive behaviour that uses the same pathway,” says Dr Astik Joshi, psychiatrist at ...
The subset of people who don’t experience joy or derive any pleasure from music have “musical anhedonia” and it’s happening ...
A small group of people experience no pleasure from music despite normal hearing and intact emotions. Brain imaging reveals ...
After evaluating scans of almost 5,800 children with and without attention deficit disorder, US researchers discovered that commonly prescribed ADHD medications don't primarily activate the brain's ...
Researchers identified a key molecule that highlights how the immune system is linked to the release of dopamine.
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