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

"These findings suggest that consciously generated positive expectations can engage reward circuitry to influence immune ...

Neuroscientists are increasingly finding that when you encounter a familiar reward, your body begins to gear up for action ...

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

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 ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience provides neural evidence regarding how environmental cues can bias human ...

Monkey experiments hint at a "motivation brake" pathway between two brain regions. Manipulating it may lead to new treatments ...

Persistent use of drugs such as cocaine and morphine is thought to affect the way the brain prioritises the body’s basic needs — and we are now getting to the bottom of how this comes about. When ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through ...