A new study shows dopamine isn’t the brain’s movement “gas pedal” after all. Instead of setting speed or strength, it quietly enables movement in the background, much like oil in an engine. When ...

A McGill-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how scientists think about Parkinson's disease treatments. Published in Nature ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, depending on their physical structure. New research from the Institute of ...

As a general rule, Australia’s government isn’t very good at getting things right. You’ll remember, of course, that it went a bit overboard on the whole COVID-19 response (even the ex-deputy health ...

Just weeks from now, Australia will become the first country to ban children under 16 from having social media accounts. But questions still remain about the law's implementation a year after it was ...

The genre of feel-good pop songs about feeling good has a tendency to get a little too literal or on-the-nose, a trap that Robyn’s “Dopamine” never falls into. It’s her first single from what will be ...

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 ...

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