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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·February 16, 2023·4 min read

          Is the Brain Wired Differently in People With Addiction?

          Study reveals functional connectivity abnormalities in brain areas associated with reward processing, habit formation, and decision-making in those with substance use disorders and addiction.
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          ·January 27, 2022·5 min read

          Revenge: The Neuroscience of Why It Feels Good in the Moment, but May Be a Bad Idea in the Long Run

          Researchers explore why revenge may feel good in the moment, but often results in mixed emotions later.
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          FeaturedOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·August 21, 2020·4 min read

          Why Obeying Orders Can Make Us Do Terrible Things

          Coercion to perform detrimental actions against others reduces empathy and guilt, a new study reports. The findings may explain why people are able to commit immoral acts that go against their ethical stance when coerced.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·March 21, 2020·3 min read

          How the brain controls the voice

          Oscillations in the fronto-striatal network predict whether a bat is about to use echolocation or vocalized communication.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·February 27, 2020·5 min read

          How the brain forms habits

          As the brain starts to develop new habits, activity in the dorsolateral striatum increases. As the activity bursts increase, the habit becomes stronger. Inhibiting neural activity with optogenetics reduces habit behaviors in mice.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·June 13, 2019·3 min read

          Formation of habitual use drives cannabis addiction

          Individual differences in the striatum of habitual cannabis users distinguish between who is at increased risk of addiction and cannabis use disorder.
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          ·December 27, 2018·3 min read

          Your Brain Rewards You Twice Per Meal

          Upon eating, dopamine is released in the brain at two different times, during ingestion and when the food reaches our stomach, researchers report.
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          ·June 25, 2018·3 min read

          Nicotine Alters Neurotransmission in Habit Forming Brain Region

          According to a new study, nicotine reduces dorsal striatal output, underlying the urge to smoke and making it difficult to quite the addiction.
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          ·November 20, 2017·1 min read

          Realistic Rodent Model of Drug Addiction

          New rodent model helps researchers discover it is ingenuity and not habit that sustains addiction.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·May 23, 2017·3 min read

          Recreational Cocaine: Brain Area Associated With Addiction Activated Earlier Than Thought

          According to researchers, people who consider themselves to be recreational cocaine users may be closer to addiction than they think.
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          Image shows the location of the prefrontal cortex in the brain.
          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·May 1, 2017·4 min read

          Ill Gotten Gains Are Worth Less in the Brain

          According to a new study, the brain responds less to rewards gained from immoral acts than it does to ethically earned rewards.
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          Image shows how the DART neuron drug delivery system works.
          FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosOpen Neuroscience Articles
          ·April 6, 2017·5 min read

          Homing System Delivers Drugs to Specific Neurons

          Researchers have developed a new method to deliver drugs to specific neurons throughout the brain.
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