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    What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

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    Machines Can Learn From Fables

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    Dynamic Mental Illness Indicators Caught by Advanced AI in Brain Imaging

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    Robots Learn Household Tasks by Watching Humans

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·May 11, 2022·3 min read

Motivation/Pleasure Deficits, Not Expression Impairments, Contribute to Social Dysfunction in Schizophrenia Patients

Amotivation and anhedonia rather than expressive dysfunction play a critical role in determining social functioning in those with schizophrenia.
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·April 14, 2021·6 min read

Women Describe Specific Techniques to Increase Their Own Pleasure

Survey study identifies four main techniques women feel enhance their sexual pleasure. Researchers say understanding the dynamics of pleasure and satisfaction experienced during sexual encounters is critical to good sexual health overall.
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·April 12, 2021·5 min read

Profound Loss of Pleasure Related to Early-Onset Dementia

Study links anhedonia, or the loss of pleasure, to the early onset of frontotemporal dementia. Neuroimaging revealed symptoms of anhedonia were marked by atrophy in the frontal and striatal brain areas of those with FTD.
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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
·November 3, 2020·5 min read

Your Favorite Music Can Send Your Brain Into a Pleasure Overload

Do you experience the chills when you hear your favorite song? Researchers used EEG to map brain activity while people listened to their favorite tunes. Findings reveal specific brain areas work together to process music, triggering the reward system and increasing dopamine release.
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FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
·January 18, 2020·2 min read

Music helps researchers find link between prediction and pleasure

Exposing subjects to music composed in an unfamiliar scale, researchers test whether reward can be derived solely from newly formed predictions.
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·December 31, 2019·3 min read

How the brain balances pleasure and pain

Different classes of neurons in the ventral pallidum control positive and negative motivations, sending opposing signals along a shared motivation-processing circuit.
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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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·December 10, 2018·6 min read

Dopamine’s Yin-Yang Personality: It’s an Upper and a Downer

Researchers shed light on the dual nature of dopamine, as a neurotransmitter that makes us seek pleasure and also reinforces avoidance of pain.
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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
·December 4, 2018·6 min read

New Insights Into Loss of Pleasure in Depression

A new study reveals a brain region that contributes to anhedonia, the loss of pleasure, in those with depression. The study also shows how ketamine acts on this brain region, explaining why the drug appears to be so effective at treating anhedonia.
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FeaturedPsychology
·August 21, 2018·3 min read

Beauty is Simpler, and Less Special, Than We Realize

Analyzing the work of great philosophers and recent neuroscience research, researchers conclude certain simple features, such as symmetry and roundness, make things more attractive to us.
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FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
·April 29, 2018·4 min read

How Pleasure Affects Our Brains

A new article looks at the neuroscience of pleasure and considers why, in the pursuit of pleasure, we embark in some actions which are detrimental to our well being.
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·April 18, 2018·4 min read

Overcoming Bias About Music Takes Work

Researchers reveal telling people whether a musician in a professional or student can change the way the brain responds to the music they are playing.
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