A neuroimaging study found that men and individuals with psychiatric symptoms who experience more pronounced anhedonia tend ...

A new study shows that cannabidiol (CBD) can reduce the craving for alcohol in people suffering from alcoholism. CBD is a ...

Using social media lights up the same parts of your brain as other addictions, such as drugs, alcohol and gambling.

The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.

Once consumed, the drug delivers a powerful stimulus to the nucleus accumbens, a cluster of nerve cells below the cerebral cortex, which responds quickly by releasing a flood of dopamine.

A new study shows that cannabidiol (CBD) can reduce the craving for alcohol in people suffering from alcoholism. CBD is a natural component of the cannabis plant and has no intoxicating effects. With ...

In the brain, endocannabinoids play a key role in food intake and energy expenditure. Modulating the effect of these molecules could help fight obesity. For years, Stephanie Fulton, a professor ...

Bachtell, RK & Self, DW (2008). Renewed cocaine exposure produces transient alterations in nucleus accumbens AMPA receptor-mediated behavior. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(48), 12808-14. Bachtell, RK, ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...

Some populations behave really differently: classically, dopamine incentivizes and makes animals work harder for reward…but other people have shown that some dopamine neurons that project to a ...

In male mice, neuronal projections from the ventral tegmental area go to the brain’s nucleus accumbens to mediate female socio-sexual preference, but to the medial preoptic area to mediate male ...