Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

The subset of people who don't experience joy or derive pleasure from music have "musical anhedonia" and it's happening in ...

A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain reward functions. By combining several brain imaging methods, the research ...

Researchers found an association between increased activity in a reward region of the brain—primarily stimulated by hopeful thinking—and heightened levels of protective antibodies after receiving a va ...

A small group of people experience no pleasure from music despite normal hearing and intact emotions. Brain imaging reveals ...

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

The team’s research provides compelling evidence for the brain’s influence on physiology. A deeper understanding of this mind ...

In a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists Pearl Chiu and Brooks Casas investigate how brain signals involved in reward learning might help ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve symptoms when standard treatments don’t work.

Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it ...