Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Healthy adults trained to upregulate reward circuitry using neurofeedback showed stronger immune responses to HBV vaccination. Read more.

"These findings suggest that consciously generated positive expectations can engage reward circuitry to influence immune ...

Methamphetamine addiction has a way of looping back on itself. A rush of pleasure pulls you in, cravings follow, and the brain learns that the drug is the fastest route to reward. Yet scientists still ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have demonstrated that learning from both rewarding and aversive ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do ...

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 ...

These feel-good activities aren’t just fun—they also support brain health and emotional well-being.

(THE CONVERSATION) Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through ...