Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much ...

Your brain chemicals play a role in everything you do. They enable communication between the different parts of your brain, send information to the rest of your body ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

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

Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

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In the nearly two-hour-long episode, Lembke warned that with technology comes a new wave of addiction. While natural rewards ...

What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision making and human behavior, scientists are studying ...

Migraines are a leading cause of disability. Worldwide about 14.7 percent of people experience migraines. Migraines entail severe pain as well as increased sensitivity to usually non-painful stimuli ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

Christopher Bergland crossing the finish line of the Triple Ironman (7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike, 78.6-mile run) in 38 hours and 46 minutes. Tonic levels of dopamine are required to achieve most ...