Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines—and people can be trained to do ...

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

In a first-of-its-kind human trial, researchers have demonstrated that consciously activating the brain’s reward system (when ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

Some people bounce back from trauma, but others get caught in depressive loops that sap the joy from their lives. Researchers at UCSF find a brain signature of resilience in mice that suggests a new ...

The areas of the brain that process reward are activated when we make choices that make other people happy, as well as ourselves, a new study has found. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University ...

People who are depressed very often show reduced interest in experiencing or obtaining pleasure, a symptom called anhedonia that research has traced to dysfunction in the brain’s reward system. In ...

Ever wonder why starting feels harder than finishing? Brain research shows stress can quietly block motivation before action ...