A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience brings together two schools of thought on the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine: one saying that dopamine provides a learning signal ...

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in these reward-related processes is well-established, the cellular and neural ...

New research suggests the cerebellum may help drive motivation with a one-two punch: anticipating a reward, then reinforcing ...

Researchers have found evidence that long COVID may damage dopamine releasing neurons in the brain, potentially explaining ...

Dopamine is known as "the reward molecule." This diagram illustrates dopaminergic neurons (i.e., dopamine-producing nerve cells) and dopaminergic pathways. Source: VectorMine/Shutterstock Motivation ...

Chapter 1: "I have no motivation" is not your fault. Where we stand now, with our brains hacked by short-form videos"Another ...

This neurotransmitter is associated with the ability to focus, experience pleasure, maintain attention span, follow-through, and feel satisfaction when learning something new, finishing a task, ...

Researchers at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have found the first direct brain evidence for a cause of the exhaustion and mental fog that trail long COVID: a measurable loss of ...

There are countless times that I started with the whole attitude of wanting to change my habits, and countless times that I ended up failing. The reason was not very clear to me, but one day I heard ...

Study finds Parkinson’s drug pramipexole may restore pleasure and motivation in depression patients with anhedonia.