Belgian researchers have uncovered a crucial role played by the gene named Maged1 in the addiction to certain drugs. This ...

Dopamine is a fascinating neurotransmitter responsible for allowing people to feel pleasure, satisfaction, and motivation. However, this neurotransmitter often takes center stage in discussions about ...

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...

Can cutting out the things that make us feel good make us feel…better?

News and commentary from the psychiatry world ...

For Hannah Blass, it all began with a pair of Adidas Stan Smith trainers. Aged 23 at the time and at university, Hannah says her family never had the money to buy expensive clothes while she was ...

Researchers carrying out functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in different areas of the human brain have discovered how cocaine addiction disrupts the dopamine neurons that govern how ...

Your ex got a new car. Your high-school crush got married. Everyone’s traveling like they’ve got platinum credit cards with unlimited overdrafts and no interest. Those images come rushing into your ...

Dopamine has a dark side. Substances that give us great pleasure, from coffee to cocaine, can raise dopamine levels too high.

A Boston University-led research team has discovered a dopamine signal in the brain that helps determine whether you are moving toward or away from a goal, potentially shedding new light on how the ...

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