A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience provides neural evidence regarding how environmental cues can bias human ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

"These findings suggest that consciously generated positive expectations can engage reward circuitry to influence immune ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it ...

Instead of focusing on your sore arm after your next vaccine, you might want to think good thoughts. A new study that trained ...

Study in mice offers insights into the brain circuitry underlying certain types of reward-based choices. Researchers identified distinct groups of brain cells activated when animals anticipate a ...

The subset of people who don’t experience joy or derive any pleasure from music have “musical anhedonia” and it’s happening ...

Ever wonder why starting feels harder than finishing? Brain research shows stress can quietly block motivation before action ...

With a new year, a healthier brain can boost your happiness and career success in 2026, plus offset brain diseases, if you ...

In a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists Pearl Chiu and Brooks Casas investigate how brain signals involved in reward learning might help ...