Chronic alcohol consumption profoundly alters gene expression in key brain regions involved in reward, impulse control, and ...

A new study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience provides evidence that the human brain processes romantic partners differently than close friends, specifically within ...

Romantic love is often described as a feeling, but brain imaging suggests it is also a long running neural project that reshapes how we experience reward, stress and safety. When infatuation settles ...

Healthy adults trained to upregulate reward circuitry using neurofeedback showed stronger immune responses to HBV vaccination ...

New research using rhesus monkeys suggests that the brain’s relationship with alcohol may begin forming long before a person ...

A Nature Medicine study links the activation of brain reward pathways to stronger antibody responses after hepatitis B vaccination in healthy adults.

Some people bounce back from trauma, but others get caught in depressive loops that sap the joy from their lives. Researchers at UCSF find a brain signature of resilience in mice that suggests a new ...

People who are depressed very often show reduced interest in experiencing or obtaining pleasure, a symptom called anhedonia that research has traced to dysfunction in the brain’s reward system. In ...

The areas of the brain that process reward are activated when we make choices that make other people happy, as well as ourselves, a new study has found. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University ...

I was a third-year medical student at Northwestern on my ICU rotation the first time I saw a dopamine drip. The patient was pale and motionless, his blood pressure dropping by the minute despite large ...

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 ...

Explore how gambling affects the brain, triggering dopamine, adrenaline, and reward loops driven by uncertainty, anticipation, and near-misses.