For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of pleasure, motivation, and reinforcement. In popular understanding, higher ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of pleasure, motivation, and reinforcement. In popular understanding, higher ...

Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural activity, but regulates inhibitory circuits that determine which signals are ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and Duke University ...

A European study led by Umea University Professor Lars Nyberg, has shown that the dopamine D2 receptor is linked to the long-term episodic memory, which function often reduces with age and due to ...