Published in Nature Neuroscience, new research reveals that timing, not repetition, drives associative learning. By showing ...

Researchers discover a new dopamine signal in the striatum that acts as a guidance system, encoding trajectory errors to steer behavior toward goals.

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Some people simply don’t derive pleasure from listening to music. There is nothing wrong with their hearing, and they enjoy plenty of other experiences, but for some strange reason music does ...

In our day-to-day lives, we're constantly making a slew of decisions, from immediate matters to prospects on the far horizon. But the evolutionary nuts-and-bolts of how our brains weigh these numerous ...

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 ...

Positive thinking may boost the body’s defenses against disease. Increasing activity in a brain region that controls motivation and expectation, specifically the brain’s reward system, is linked with ...

Overall, participants reported that they liked artificial sweeteners about as much as sugar. However, the researchers ...