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Dopamine’s Role in Unlearning Fearful Association

Neuroscience NewsJune 27, 2018

Researchers report dopamine neurons may play a role in fear extinction. The study suggests targeting dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area could be of therapeutic benefit to reduce the impact of learned fear in PTSD and anxiety disorders.... Read More...

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How Your Brain Decides Between Knowledge and Ignorance

Neuroscience NewsJune 26, 2018

Researchers report the brain's reward network could play an influential role in evaluating the opportunity to gain new information, just as it does to evaluate rewards such as food or financial gain.... Read More...

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Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Emotion Identified

Neuroscience NewsJune 13, 2018

Researchers shed light on the mechanisms behind the anxiolytic CRH circuit in the ventral tegmental area of the brain.... Read More...

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Detecting Diminishing Dopamine Firing Cells in Brain Could Reveal Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

Neuroscience NewsMarch 27, 2018

According to researchers, if the ventral tegmental area is unable to produce the correct amount of dopamine for the hippocampus, it will not work efficiently and the impairment can result in dementia.... Read More...

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In Pursuit of Pleasure, the Brain Learns to Hit the Repeat Button

Neuroscience NewsMarch 2, 2018

According to researchers, the brain learns to reproduce brain activity patterns that lead to reward. The findings could lead to new avenues for treating addiction and OCD, researchers report.... Read More...

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How the Brain Selectively Remembers New Places

Neuroscience NewsDecember 27, 2017

MIT researchers have identified a brain network that allows the brain to record memories of new places.... Read More...

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Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments for Addiction and Anxiety

Neuroscience NewsNovember 10, 2017

Researchers have identified a specific network in the brain that appears to be associated with risk and reward assessment.... Read More...

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Higher Estrogen Levels Linked to Increased Alcohol Sensitivity in Brain’s Reward Center

Neuroscience NewsNovember 7, 2017

Neurons in the ventral tegmental area, an area of the brain considered to be the reward center, fire more rapidly to alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated, a new study reports. The study may shed light on how alcohol addiction develops in some women.... Read More...

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A New Target For Marijuana

Neuroscience NewsOctober 16, 2017

Findings shed light on the effect of marijuana on the developing brain and provide a target for cannabis use disorder.... Read More...

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How ‘Love Hormone’ Oxytocin Spurs Sociability

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 29, 2017

Researchers pinpoint the brain circuitry involved in social reward and shed new light on oxytocin's role in social behavior.... Read More...

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Low-Dose Diazepam Can Increase Social Competitiveness

Neuroscience NewsJuly 18, 2017

Researchers from EPFL have uncovered how diazepam, a common anxiolytic, can increase mitochondrial activity in neural pathways associated with motivation.... Read More...

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Alcoholism May Be Caused by Dynamical Dopamine Imbalance

Neuroscience NewsMarch 10, 2017

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism for the development of alcoholism.... Read More...

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Like A Lot of Things, Women’s Gut Microbiomes Appear to Mature Earlier than Men’s

Study identifies our ‘inner pickpocket’

Multiple brain regions moderate and link depressive mood and pain

Neuroscience

Like A Lot of Things, Women’s Gut Microbiomes Appear to Mature Earlier than Men’s

Study identifies our ‘inner pickpocket’

Multiple brain regions moderate and link depressive mood and pain

Neurology

Like A Lot of Things, Women’s Gut Microbiomes Appear to Mature Earlier than Men’s

Multiple brain regions moderate and link depressive mood and pain

CBD clinical trial results on seizure frequency in dogs ‘encouraging’

AI

Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

New AI Sees Like a Human, Filling in the Blanks

Robotics

Dog-like robot made by students jumps, flips and trots

Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’

New AI Sees Like a Human, Filling in the Blanks

Psychology

Multiple brain regions moderate and link depressive mood and pain

Link between air pollution and anxiety in children investigated

CBD reduces craving and anxiety in people with heroin use disorder

VTA

Dopamine’s Role in Unlearning Fearful Association

How Your Brain Decides Between Knowledge and Ignorance

Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Emotion Identified

Detecting Diminishing Dopamine Firing Cells in Brain Could Reveal Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s

In Pursuit of Pleasure, the Brain Learns to Hit the Repeat Button

How the Brain Selectively Remembers New Places

Discovery Could Lead to New Treatments for Addiction and Anxiety

Higher Estrogen Levels Linked to Increased Alcohol Sensitivity in Brain’s Reward Center

A New Target For Marijuana

Alcoholism May Be Caused by Dynamical Dopamine Imbalance