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A Harvard team studying mice found that the brain processes isolation and loneliness like hunger and thirst, highlighting the ...

Dopamine, a brain chemical, plays a pivotal role in the brain’s pleasure and reward circuits by regulating mood, motivation, and physical movements. A deficiency in dopamine could lead to ...

Cell replacement for Parkinson’s disease replaces the dopamine neurons lost to degeneration and can restore dopaminergic function in the brain, providing a completely new treatment modality ...

Neurons are cells found in your brain and central nervous system that tell your body how to behave. There are approximately 86 billion neurons in the human brain. Interestingly, your gut contains ...

Following CTA formation, intraoral sucrose suppressed the activity of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons (VTA DA) and nucleus accumbens (NAc) dopamine release. This pattern of dopamine signaling ...

1Department of Medicine, Columbia Center for Human Development, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York. 2Herbert Irving Comprehensive ...

Importantly, activating these GLP-1 receptors increases the activity of GABA neurons, which in turn reduces the activity of dopamine neurons, a key neurotransmitter involved in reward and addiction.