Researchers found that cutting the vagus nerve in mice reduced dopamine activity and lessened the frequency of reward ...

Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

A Stanford addiction researcher said our brains are hardwired to get hooked on doomscrolling. Here's how to take a break and ...

A combination of two drugs- one for smoking cessation and another for depression- appear to work synergistically to treat alcohol use disorder. The corresponding study was published in The Lancet ...

Being thoughtful about food choices can also help ensure your body produces and regulates dopamine properly. Dopamine is ...

Elevated blood sugar—without diabetes—is common. Pre-diabetes affects an estimated 38% of U.S. adults. Inchauspé’s “ glucose ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

LOS ANGELES — Maybe you'd like to spend time on hobbies or hang out with friends, but nothing feels as exciting and engaging as it used to –– so you just squander another hour on social media. Your ...

Dopamine is often casually labelled the brain's "pleasure chemical", but neuroscientists say this popular idea misses the point, and may even explain why people so often feel conflicted, restless and ...

GLP-1 drugs might lead people to shun alcohol entirely: or the effect may be more nuanced. People might have one drink to ...