A new research initiative is investigating how obesity reshapes brain circuits involved in reward, motivation, and emotion, ...

Obesity is on the rise. Among U.S. adults aged 20 or older, 4 in 10 met the criteria for obesity in the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, up from roughly 3 in 10 two ...

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

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 ...

Anecdotal reports suggest drugs like Ozempic may curb not just appetite but also impulsive or addictive behaviour, hinting at ...

A global team has constructed the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date. A global collaboration of over 150 researchers has created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian ...

“It is no use asking for the impossible, such as, say, the exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and the way all its neurons are firing,” Crick wrote in Scientific America ...

In 1979, famed molecular biologist, Francis Crick, stated that it would be "[impossible] to create an exact wiring diagram ... into brain function and organization of the visual system.

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse’s cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...

Serotonin is often painted as the brain's "pleasure chemical" but its precise role in the nervous system is ambiguous ... like the start of a signal that reward will arrive soon or the end of ...