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The pleasure we get from eating junk food—the dopamine rush from crunching down on salty, greasy French fries and a luscious ...

Zebra finches learn their courtship songs early in life by first listening to their fathers and memorizing the melodies.

The main part of their brain that is damaged is the area that produces dopamine, a chemical messenger that regulates movement ...

Dopamine is one of the brain's chemical messengers, transmitting important signals about learning, reward and motivation from one neuron to another. To monitor dopamine, the researchers used tiny ...