American author and popularizer, analyzes for the second time the mechanisms of dopamine in his new book Dopamine under ...

My colleagues and I recently found that we were able to train mice to voluntarily increase the size and frequency of seemingly random dopamine impulses in their brains. Conventional wisdom in ...

Researchers at McGill University have uncovered a surprising twist in how dopamine affects movement, overturning a ...

Mice are both aware of random dopamine signaling in their brains and can willfully control it, according to new research from UC San Diego. The study was published in Current Biology. In previous ...

Why do some brains crave more stimulation than others? Learn about dopamine, genetics, and brain function, and how dopamine ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one that ...

UC San Diego researchers who set out to investigate less understood aspects related to spontaneous impulses of dopamine — the "feel good" brain chemical — have determined that mice can willfully ...

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