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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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