Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Brain imaging studies show that grievances—real or imagined perceptions ...

The nucleus accumbens figures in a wide variety of cravings, including food and sex as well as gambling, booze and rock 'n' roll.

The study revealed that these two types of brain cells create parallel highways that lead to different neighborhoods in the ventral striatum. The first pathway (Drd1+ neurons) primarily connects to an ...

Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation demonstrated brain convergences on the right side, suggesting an association with brain asymmetry.

The activity in a region of the brain associated with reward can predict who will gain weight or have sex in the next six months, according to new research. The nucleus accumbens, buried deep in ...

A study reveals a brain circuit between the interpeduncular nucleus and the laterodorsal tegmentum that drives nicotine ...

More than 80 percent of activated medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens expressed reelin mRNA, with average expression about 10 times greater compared to neurons that were not activated by ...

The nucleus accumbens (NAc), a key dopaminergic terminal region of the limbic system, is a neurosurgical target for antidepressant modulation. 21, 22 In our earlier work, NAc deep-brain ...

Polysubstance abuse, using multiple types of drugs at the same time, is a common cause of death from overdose and an ...

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