These feel-good activities aren’t just fun—they also support brain health and emotional well-being.

Our daily actions affect the brain more than we realize. According to psychologist Dr. Leah Kaylor, simple activities can ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dopamine is closely associated with the body's reward system. Dopamine is closely associated with the body's reward system.

A quick surge of dopamine shifts mice into a dreamy stage of sleep. In the rodents’ brains, the chemical messenger triggers rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, researchers report in the March 4 Science.

Dopamine is often casually labelled the brain's "pleasure chemical", but neuroscientists say this popular idea misses the point, and may even explain why people so often feel conflicted, restless and ...

Mental exhaustion isn't a life sentence; often, it is simply a sign that your brain is "full." The 12-hour dopamine fast on ...

Here's what lies behind the concept of moderating our dopamine-driven pursuits for an improved quality of life. Thanks to pop psychology’s “hijacking” of a legitimate therapeutic method, most people ...

Researchers have discovered a new piece in the puzzle of the brain's 'feel good' substance, dopamine. According to one of the researchers behind the new study, the discovery may facilitate the ...

Recently published research reports a relationship between neuron type and dopamine function, and one type of dopamine neuron has an unexpected function that will likely reshape how scientists, ...

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