Individuals whose brains exhibit a high response to threat in the amygdala (left) and a low response to reward in the ventral striatum (middle) are more at risk of developing symptoms of anxiety ...

In the 20-40% of OCD patients that are treatment refractory, deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral capsule and ventral striatum (VC/VS) is an effective therapy that achieves significant benefit ...

When a fan saw the rival team fail, a special area in the brain called the ventral striatum lit up. It helps process reward, pleasure, and decision making — suggesting the fans were experiencing ...

One way to measure the brain’s response to reward is to examine activity in the ventral striatum – the key area of our reward system responsible for the feeling of pleasure. Our study aimed to ...

Alcohol is deeply rooted in our cultures and habits, and in most Western countries, its significant economic weight grants it ...

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 ...

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 ...

As youngsters tend to spend a lot of time online, they become increasingly influenced by the digital world and prone to many ...

During the experiment, they monitored activity in a key region of the brain called the ventral striatum (where the 'meaning' of the incentive is encoded and which communicates with the motor ...