Study could help destigmatize illnesses like depression and anxiety, and lead to more treatment.

However, there has been a lack of clinical trials in humans. The ICONIC study (Investigation of the effects of Cannabidiol ON ...

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

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.

The nucleus accumbens, a brain region where dopamine is thought to exert its effects, is uniquely enriched with a molecule that recognizes dopamine, the D3 receptor." So far, the role of the D3 ...

They knew from previous work that the best place to start looking is inside the nucleus accumbens. The nucleus accumbens (NAc ...

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 ...