Discover how dopamine’s unexpected role in breaking down harmful plaques could revolutionize Alzheimer's treatment and ...

From dopamine deficits to withdrawal symptoms, detoxing from social media can be challenging. This is how to make it work for ...

Research has found that those of us who take a break from social media actually gain more self-confidence along with many ...

Dopamine is a powerful signal in the brain, influencing our moods, motivations, movements, and more. The neurotransmitter is crucial for reward-based learning, a function that may be disrupted in ...

We are interested in determining how manipulating pre- and post-synaptic adenosine A1 receptors alter reward and relapse behavior and what mechanisms are involved in this process. Dopamine-Adenosine ...

On the flip side, stimulating the dopamine pathway between the ventral tegmental ... these neural circuits without affecting ...

This pathway includes the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens, areas where dopamine release creates feelings of pleasure and reward. When alcohol is consumed, it triggers dopamine ...

Social media networks have become a way for us to regain some of that connectivity, but in a very different way – one which uses “the dopamine reward pathway to keep us in that hyper-connected ...

The release of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain creates the feeling ... processed foods are), stimulate a greater sense of reward than others. This can lead to a “dietary pleasure ...