A small burst of energy can change how a movement feels. It can make a reach quicker, a step lighter, or a motion more ...

Romantic love is often described as a feeling, but brain imaging suggests it is also a long running neural project that reshapes how we experience reward, stress and safety. When infatuation settles ...

A growing body of mouse and rat research is rewriting the textbook on how dopamine, the brain’s primary reward signal, ...

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

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on ...

Researchers at the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, in collaboration with the German Center for Diabetes Research, ...

Few things crush the spirit like the sensation of giving up. We all know the feeling, when you thought a goal was in reach, then realize you just don’t have enough of whatever it takes to get there.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with obesity reported greater perception of sweet tastes after taking semaglutide for 16 weeks. Response ...

When faced with multiple food options and ultimately choosing one, the factors of that decision-making process may be more physiological than previously assumed. A group of scientists led by ...