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Featured Neuroscience

·April 25, 2016·6 min read

Dopamine’s Role in Movement

Dopamine neurons have a direct role in encoding movement, a new study reports.

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·April 7, 2016·3 min read

Treating Sugar Addiction Like Drug Abuse

A new study reports drugs used to treat nicotine addiction could be used to treat sugar addiction.

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Featured Psychology

·March 3, 2016·5 min read

Looking at Brain Activity May Aid Self Motivation

Researchers are using a new brain imaging strategy to understand how to manipulate specific neural circuits in order to help motivate people.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 4, 2016·4 min read

Neural Pathway Responsible for Opioid Withdrawal Discovered

Using optogenetics to manipulate the brains of opioid addicted mice, researchers discover a neural pathway that appears to be responsible for symptoms of withdrawal.

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Featured Neurology Psychology

·January 26, 2016·3 min read

Brain Circuits Involved in Vocal Tic Generation Identified

Researchers have identified a brain circuit responsible for vocal tics in nonhuman primates.

Image shows the location of the nucleus accumbens in the brain.

Featured Neuroscience

·January 19, 2016·2 min read

Not So Sweet: Too Much Sugar During Adolescence Could Alter Brain’s Reward Circuits

A new study reports eating too much sugary foods as a teen can reduce activity in the nucleus accumbens.

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Featured Psychology

·January 7, 2016·5 min read

What Are The Odds of That? Risky Gambling Choices Influenced by Single Brain Connection

Findings could help in understanding and developing treatments for gambling addiction, researchers suggest.

Diagram shows the location of the nucleus accumbens in the brain.

Featured Neurology Pain

·December 21, 2015·4 min read

New Drug Therapy Could End Chronic Pain

Drug combination targets brain circuits in the nucleus accumbens and completely eliminate chronic pain behavior.

This image shows a brain slice taken from a rat's nucleus accumbens.

Featured Genetics Psychology

·November 30, 2015·4 min read

How Anxiety Kills Your Social Status

Researchers have identified an area of the brain that links anxious temperaments to low social status. They were also able to 'tweak' the social hierarchy in animals using vitamin B3.

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·November 25, 2015·7 min read

New Brain Cell Formation and Long-Term Memory Enhanced by Running

Mice that spent time running on wheels developed twice the normal number of new neurons and showed an increased ability to distinguish new objects from familiar objects, a new study reports.