Reward-related events activate dopamine and other neurons in many brain areas. A report in Nature, however, now suggests that neurons in the lateral habenula signal to dopamine neurons when no ...

Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The ...

A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has upended decades of neuroscience dogma, revealing that ...

New research has overturned decades of belief about how dopamine communicates in the brain, showing it acts with pinpoint precision rather than broad diffusion.

Researchers have created over 400 distinct types of human nerve cells in vitro, vastly expanding the diversity available for ...

Neuroinflammation is rewiring our take on mental Illness, emerging science links brain inflammation to depression, anxiety, ...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter with which neurons communicate to perform all kinds of tasks. It is responsible, for example, for motivation or appetite, or that we associate a more intense emotion to ...

A collaborative study led by Professor Vittoria Raffa at the University of Pisa and Assistant Professor Fabian Raudzus ...

Dr. Anna Lembke spoke with CNN about what dopamine is, what it does, and how you can find better balance if you have a ...