Robust neural activity in the ventral striatum suggests that romantic love is strongly linked to the brain's reward system.

This is an important behavioral, pharmacological intervention study of the effects of the catecholamine reuptake inhibitor methylphenidate (MPH) on value-based decision-making using a combination of ...

The medial SN connects with limbic striatal and cortical regions and encodes value (greater response to monetary wins than losses during fMRI), while the ventral SN connects with associative regions ...

In a captivating "Genomic Press Interview" published in the Innovators & Ideas: Rising Star section of the peer-reviewed ...

Sugary beverages were less satisfying to participants after bariatric surgery and weight loss, found a recent observational ...

One way to measure the brain’s response to reward is to examine activity in the ventral striatum – the key area of our reward ...

Mental health disorders among young people have risen nearly 50 per cent in the past 15 years. We go inside a teen brain to show how modern pressures impact the adolescent mind and where it can go ...

This lights up the Ventral Striatum where we anticipate reward. If we can increase this experience we can get into Smart State. A few more key findings are that with the experience of distrust ...

The following is a summary of “Gray matter volume of limbic brain structures during the development of chronic back pain: a ...

aMCC anterior mid-cingulate cortex, dlPFC dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, vmPFC ventromedial prefrontal cortex, VS ventral ...