We have long been told a simple story about reward: Dopamine is the "wanting" molecule that drives us toward goals, and ...

I was a third-year medical student at Northwestern on my ICU rotation the first time I saw a dopamine drip. The patient was pale and motionless, his blood pressure dropping by the minute despite large ...

For a small percentage of people, loss doesn’t soften with time. New research reveals how prolonged grief disorder disrupts ...

Risk, reward, dopamine surges. Packaged into 130 games. Although the odds of a perfect NCAA bracket are about 1 in 9.2 ...

A new finding from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the learning process of associating cues with rewards can be altered by increased or decreased activity of a specific ...

The ADHD brain is different, not faulty. The ADHD system can set a person up for addiction. Dopamine levels are the key to ...

Elena Mainetto, from Radboud University, Margaret Westwater, from the University of Oxford, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge explored whether they could change how much people enjoy ...