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

New research sheds light on how six types of love, including romantic love, parental love, and love for one's pets, activate ...

Puberty hormones change the structures in the brain which process emotions, including the amygdala (which encodes fear and stress) and ventral striatum (involved in reward and motivation). This makes ...

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

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 ...

We’re finally moving towards a causality-based nosology for psychiatry: specific symptoms with defined biological ...

Be fair – set standards and stick to them. Fairness activates the ventral striatum and other reward areas of the brain. I call fairness out here as I still see entirely too much favoritism in ...

In the brain scans, how pleasurable the subjects rated the sounds was correlated to activity in the ventral striatum, which ...

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 ...

Robust neural activity in the ventral striatum suggests that romantic love is strongly linked to the brain's reward system. Passion enhances lovers' motivation to pursue goal-seeking behaviors ...