Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there’s one name that dominates the wellness space right now, it’s Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. The Stanford neuroscientist and host ...

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

We have long been told a simple story about reward: Dopamine is the "wanting" molecule that drives us toward goals, and ...

Scientists have long known that dopamine helps the brain learn from rewards, but a new computational model shows how for people with schizophrenia this learning system can break down and ...

Our brains are not static objects — they adapt and reorganize to the ebb and flow of new information, sensations, and even physical trauma. But when this impressive neuroplasticity is impaired, it can ...

Dopamine is one of the most extensively studied chemical messengers in the human brain, and yet scientists are still figuring out how it works to accomplish so much. For years, the classic view has ...

A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience brings together two schools of thought on the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine: one saying that dopamine provides a learning signal ...

We've all been there. You glance at Instagram (or your Twitter feed, or your LinkedIn feed, or Facebook, or your newspaper app). You look at the first entry and then the next, and then swipe with your ...

Dopamine is trending as the most popular neurotransmitter. And why not? There are days I think it rules the world or at least the day–to-day activities of my friends and family. The craving you have ...

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