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

They're marketed as a natural alternative to prescription drugs and popular on social media, but do they work?

As the brain ages, dopamine-producing cells and receptors gradually disappear, but surviving cells can ramp up dopamine production to compensate. It’s a kind of biological workaround — and, as ...

Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The discovery turns a century-old view of dopamine on its head and could ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Columbia University and the University of San Francisco, have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which dopamine, a key brain chemical vital for movement ...

You won’t get very far without dopamine. That is the problem at the heart of Parkinson’s disease; the death of dopamine-producing cells eventually leaves many patients unable to walk. Too much ...

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

Parkinson’s disease is a long-term brain condition that affects how people move. It usually develops slowly and is most ...