Researchers found that caffeine blocks alcohol’s ability to increase dopamine in brain reward areas, potentially reducing ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have recently uncovered insights into how specific brain pathways influence cocaine addiction. The study, published in Neuropharmacology, found that ...

Recent studies unexpectedly indicate involvement of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here, the authors identified the enzyme casein kinase 2 as a mechanistic ...

Researchers uncover a link between impaired glutathione–ascorbate metabolism and early dopamine increases in Huntington's ...

These devices could serve as valuable tools for biomedical research and may have potential for clinical applications in the ...

The unique effect of Mazindol on heroin dependence lies in its ability to regulate the meso-corticolimbic system, which includes the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and nucleus accumbens-key regions in ...

With more than half of new relationships forming online, Emma Loffhagen investigates whether we can still find love at first ...

No matter what you've heard, you don't love anything with all of your heart. You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas ...

This study describes a new analysis strategy to compare active neurons during behavioral tasks across the brain. This is significant because analysing how different brain areas are active during ...

A novel method of electrical stimulation to precisely control neural activity for sensory restoration exhibits improvements in visual stimulus reconstruction, enables efficient hardware design, and ...

Despite being a first-line treatment for adolescent depression and anxiety, antidepressant drugs appear to have questionable efficacy and carry an increased risk of adverse effects in this ...