It only makes sense: Neuroscientists see a link between your drive to build a better reputation and the intensity of your Facebook usage. They say the two activities stimulate a reward center in the ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have created a single-nucleus RNA-sequencing resource to generate molecular signatures of cell types in five key regions of the human brain ...

Chronic alcohol consumption profoundly alters gene expression in key brain regions involved in reward, impulse control, and decision-making, according to a study led by researchers at the Institute ...

Neuroscientists have discovered that the degree of motivation and the stamina to keep it up depends on the ratio between the neurotransmitters glutamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens of the ...

CRISPR activation enables flexible upregulation of selected genes in cultured neurons and the adult nervous system. Here, neurons in the rat nucleus accumbens (a key brain reward structure) were ...