New research has uncovered an unexpected function of dopamine, a brain chemical traditionally associated with pleasure and ...

Delicious and extremely palatable food can increase the tendency of hedonic eating, where one consumes food for the sole ...

A new interdisciplinary study by researchers from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Andrew and Erna ...

Qi was able to show that another chemical messenger called acetylcholine can trigger dopamine release in the bird’s brain ...

Chronic high-fat diets blunt the brain’s pleasure response to rich foods by impairing NAcLat→VTA signaling in mice.

Learn how Zebra finches' natural drive to learn their songs makes them masters of their craft — and what we can learn from ...

A study by Duke University neuroscientists uncovers the role of dopamine in guiding song learning in juvenile zebra finches.

Zebra finches learn their courtship songs early in life by first listening to their fathers and memorizing the melodies.

The researchers used fiber photometry systems to detect neurotransmitters, which involved injecting the mice with fluorescent ...

A study published Wednesday indicates that low levels of a key brain chemical among overweight patients with high-fat diets ...

New research uncovers how dopamine in the ventral shell of the nucleus accumbens (vsNAc) governs the sexual behavior sequence in male mice, from sniffing to ejaculation.