Recent evidence suggests that a single dose of the psychedelic compound psilocybin reduces the drive to seek out rewards, ...

Imagine a world where your brain works against your wallet — welcome to Gen Z’s dopamine debt, a phenomenon where the brain’s reward system adapts to hyperstimulation, creating cycles of impulsive ...

A new study is challenging one of neuroscience’s most enduring ideas: that the brain’s reward system exists to make us feel good. Instead, researchers argue that it is built to optimize energy.

Credit card reward points do more than save money—they can reshape how your brain makes spending decisions. Neuroscience suggests reward programmes create four dopamine highs, making them far more ...

The purpose? To stimulate dopamine—a hormone and neurotransmitter in the brain involved in mood, attention, reward and motivation. It's also known as the "feel-good hormone." Dopamine comes in many ...

Teenage risk-taking, such as experimentation with alcohol, cannabis, nicotine and other substances, may reflect a compensatory response to lower baseline dopamine, the brain chemical for reward ...

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A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain reward functions. By combining several brain imaging methods, the research ...