New research shows that the same dopamine receptor mechanism responsible for drug addiction also governs the natural decline in motivation when we repeat rewarding behaviors.

A recent study published in Molecular Psychiatry suggests a new way to understand the relationship between body fat and the ...

Desensitization of neurons to dopamine is a well-known effect in addiction. However, researchers found a natural example of ...

In addition to reducing hunger, popular weight-loss drugs also affect reward processing and motivated behaviors.

Scientists are uncovering how GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy act on brain regions that control hunger, nausea, pleasure-based eating, and thirst. These discoveries may help create treatments that ...

Published, peer-reviewed narrative review in CNS Spectrums compiles pharmacologic, pharmacokinetic and clinical data of VMAT2 inhibitors to highlight ...

New research is uncovering how medications targeting the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) system affect brain circuits involved in nausea, thirst, and pleasurable behaviors. These findings will be ...

I’m the idiot who once ate a ghost-pepper wing on a dare, cried for twenty minutes, and then immediately asked for another ...

Black Ops 7, I stopped playing like a normal human and started moving like a caffeinated raccoon darting across a freeway.

At the 2025 Society for Neuroscience meeting, scientists discussed the adverse side effects of GLP-1 agonists and new ...