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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Perlman indicated that the association between substance use and neuromelanin MRI signals was especially strong in certain midbrain regions of young women, such as the ventral tegmental area.

Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are powerful regulators of depression-related behavior. Dopamine neuron activity is altered in chronic stress-based models of depression, but the ...

Stressful experiences potently activate kappa opioid receptors (κORs). κORs in the ventral tegmental area regulate multiple aspects of dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic cell function. Here we show ...