Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences have found a surprising connection between a fungus associated with alcohol use disorder and the ...

I was a third-year medical student at Northwestern on my ICU rotation the first time I saw a dopamine drip. The patient was pale and motionless, his blood pressure dropping by the minute despite large ...

When faced with multiple food options and ultimately choosing one, the factors of that decision-making process may be more physiological than previously assumed. A group of scientists recently ...

Using computational models, the researchers studied how the brain's reward-learning system functions in those with depression, especially among individuals experiencing anhedonia, the inability to ...

A study found that vaporized cannabis rapidly increases food intake by activating brain reward circuits rather than true hunger signals. Participants and rats ate more even when full, and blocking ...

Listening to your favorite music activates the brain's opioid system with pleasurable and analgesic effects. A Finnish study ...

Many of us know the feeling of hoping a treatment will work. We try a new medicine or a vaccine and we tell ourselves it will help. Most people think of this as a simple mindset. But scientists have ...