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·February 15, 2017·4 min read

New Insights into How Cocaine Effects the Brain: Mouse Study

Reduced WAVE1 levels decreased preference for cocaine in mice, researchers report.
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FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
·January 23, 2020·3 min read

How the brain processes rewards

Different types of reward have unique effects on the basal ganglia nuclei. Food rewards influence the left hemisphere of the brain, while erotic rewards engage the right lateral globus and left caudate. Financial rewards engage the basal ganglia bilaterally.
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·October 17, 2016·5 min read

Why Risk Taking Behavior Increases During Adolescence

Researchers uncover a casual relationship between behavioral control and a specific imbalance in brain function that exists during adolescence.
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·August 8, 2019·4 min read

Genetic variation contributes to individual differences in pleasure

What we find pleasurable may be down to our genetics. Researchers found nucleus accumbens activation and physical anhedonia were influenced by shared genes. The experience of pleasure and physical anhedonia also appear to share some of the same genes.
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·September 20, 2017·5 min read

Oxytocin Turns Up the Volume of Your Social Environment

According to researchers, blocking the activity of oxytocin restored normal social behavior in stressed mice.
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·January 17, 2020·3 min read

New insights into a Parkinson’s disease protein

Alpha synuclein's non-amyloidal component (NAC) aids the protein's movement through axons. When the NAC region is removed, alpha-synuclein did not move within axons.
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·June 20, 2018·3 min read

Weak Brain Nodes Have Strong Influence on Memory Network

Researchers report that for memory formation, the nucleus accumbens is both upstream and influential.
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FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
·August 28, 2019·4 min read

An island for negative emotions

In mice, the insular cortex processes negative emotions and bodily discomfort. The findings shed light on emotional processing in animals and humans.
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·May 22, 2013·5 min read

Brain Can Be Trained in Compassion

Using neuroimaging technology, researchers note increased activity in areas of the brain associated with empathy in subjects who underwent compassion training.
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·November 27, 2018·4 min read

Clues to Brain Changes in Depression Discovered

A new study sheds light on how the brain processes rewards and provides a deeper understanding on the neurobiology of depression.
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·November 2, 2021·3 min read

The Mechanisms of Addiction

A new study aims to shed light on the roles sub-regions of the nucleus accumbens play in addiction.
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·December 2, 2020·4 min read

Common Neural Circuit and Potential Target for Anxiety and OCD

Glutamatergic neural connections between the prelimbic prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens appear to be responsible for co-morbid anxiety and OCD behaviors.
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