A new study published in the journal Addiction Neuroscience provides evidence that cannabidiol may help prevent the ...

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and ...

People who are depressed very often show reduced interest in experiencing or obtaining pleasure, a symptom called anhedonia that research has traced to dysfunction in the brain’s reward system. In ...

Recent research indicates that bodily inflammation may disrupt the brain’s ability to process rewards and risks in American Indian adults who have experienced depression. The study found that higher ...

The areas of the brain that process reward are activated when we make choices that make other people happy, as well as ourselves, a new study has found. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University ...

In our day-to-day lives, we're constantly making a slew of decisions, from immediate matters to prospects on the far horizon. But the evolutionary nuts-and-bolts of how our brains weigh these numerous ...

ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

If you replay arguments long after they end, your brain may be seeking reward, not resolution. Here’s how dopamine shapes ...

What appears to be “high performance” often reflects a reward system running on fumes rather than sustainable focus.

A rare brain-recording study found tirzepatide briefly muted activity linked to 'food noise'; months later the signals and ...