A recent study conducted by scientists in France and published in Translational Psychiatry offers new insights into how ...

The brain’s amygdala recognizes the emotional significance of the cue and increases its rate of firing; then, a tide of dopamine released in the goal-oriented nucleus accumbens drives the ...

There are projections from hypothalamic nuclei to the prefrontal cortex, involved in conditioned taste aversion, as well as reward centers, such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens. Leptin is ...

She studies the neuroscience of optimism and pessimism and has found its rooted deeply in our desire either to pursue pleasure (the nucleus accumbens) or avoid pain (the amygdala) and their ...

“In mice, the neurons in the PVT branch off into both the amygdala, influencing negative emotions like fear, and to the nucleus accumbens, influencing positive emotions linked to reward,” says Kat ...