Why do some brains crave more stimulation than others? Learn about dopamine, genetics, and brain function, and how dopamine ...
My colleagues and I recently found that we were able to train mice to voluntarily increase the size and frequency of seemingly random dopamine impulses in their brains. Conventional wisdom in ...
In a new Northwestern University-led study, researchers identified and recorded from three genetic subtypes of dopamine neurons in the midbrain region of a mouse model. Although there is a ...
Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...
Mice are both aware of random dopamine signaling in their brains and can willfully control it, according to new research from UC San Diego. The study was published in Current Biology. In previous ...
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Michael E Long, on the desire hormone: "Dopamine makes us pursue things we don't really need"
American author and popularizer, analyzes for the second time the mechanisms of dopamine in his new book Dopamine under control (Península). He does so from a practical perspective in which, "without ...
If you replay arguments long after they end, your brain may be seeking reward, not resolution. Here’s how dopamine shapes ...
Pavlov was famously able to train his dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, not the sight of food. Today, scientists believe that the bell sound caused a release of dopamine to predict the ...
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