Because substances of abuse act directly on the reward center ... changes in the brain. The brain alterations change the way the brain works—notably in the dopamine system—to create the ...

These may include external sources of stress as well as additional biological causes such as the composition of the microbiome in the digestive system ... alter the brain’s reward circuit ...

indicates that “there’s good reason to suspect that romantic love is kept alive by something basic to ... Two of the brain regions that showed activity in the fMRI scans were the caudate nucleus, a ...

Motor imagery-based brain computer interface (MI-BCI ... Figure 1. Schematic diagram of long term NFT experiment and control experiment arrangement. The specific system integration scheme is designed ...

A dopamenu is a personalized list of small, rewarding activities designed to boost focus, motivation and well-being. Here are ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

Researchers have recently uncovered new insights into how the brain’s reward system functions in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its relationship with psychological ...

Using computational models, the researchers studied how the brain's reward-learning system functions in those with depression, especially among individuals experiencing anhedonia, the inability to ...

Earlier studies done mostly on mice discovered that the brain had a system that flushed its tissues with cerebrospinal fluid, which carried away waste products in a process called glymphatic ...

I feel like I’ll never forgive myself if I ignore this problem any longer. So, I wrote a simple quest system prototype. As usual, it worked, it failed, and it taught me things. Here’s how I ...

I developed the “second brain” system, which helps me sort out ideas and stay organized. While our brain is powerful, its resources are limited. We constantly diminish its efficiency as a ...