You lean back from the dinner table, feeling like you physically couldn’t fit another bite in – but then someone offers pie ...

Who hasn't been there? The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

It was pretty incredible in terms of what they were able to do to identify very specific circuitry in the brain,” said Sayamwong Hammack ... They further confirmed the importance of this pathway by ...

Imagine your brain has all these neural pathways connecting different responses. If you’re stuck in a traffic jam, and you feel angry, that fires a series of neurons together. The first time you ...

What happens in addiction is that, through completely natural processes involved in all learning, the brain prunes nerve pathways of attention and motivation to preferentially notice, focus on ...

circuits and tissues to brain structure and signal pathways, along with their functions. With recent breakthroughs of microlevel information processing and coding of neurons, and macrolevel ...

Who hasn't been there? The big meal is over, you're full, but the craving for sweets remains. Researchers have now discovered that what we call the 'dessert stomach' is rooted in the brain. The same ...

A brain pathway called the mesolimbic reward system is suspected to be involved in this process, but few studies have ...

We are convinced that the interconnections between different brain regions—believed to reflect communication pathways—play a particularly critical role,” said study author Kirsten Hilger ...