High school students learn that Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to associate the sound of a bell with getting food. The ...

A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has upended decades of neuroscience dogma, revealing that ...

A team of neuroscientists in Australia has found that restoring copper levels in the brain dramatically reduced Parkinson-like damage in mice. The approach restored a protein’s function, and the same ...

A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has upended decades of neuroscience dogma, revealing that ...

New research has overturned decades of belief about how dopamine communicates in the brain, showing it acts with pinpoint precision rather than broad diffusion.

The findings of two recent studies give hope that the disease could one day be reversed in humans—but experts warn that this ...

Although dopaminergic neurons make up only 1% of the brain, their influence on our lives is immense and dopamine is one of the most-studied substances. All of these effects depend on the puzzle-like ...

It’s effective “because dopamine is a feel-good chemical that reinforces behaviors,” Tam Kaur, a self-help author, explains. ...

A new study from Stanford Medicine has found that stopping an overactive enzyme in the brain might help protect and even ...

Imagine a world where your brain works against your wallet — welcome to Gen Z’s dopamine debt, a phenomenon where the brain’s ...

Maybe you’d like to spend time on hobbies or hang out with friends, but nothing feels as exciting and engaging as it used to ...