Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior.

Mount Sinai researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion ...

This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

We all think we know a lot about this infamous “pleasure chemical,” but dopamine may be more complicated than we think.

Most people with depression or schizophrenia are treated with drugs that work on brain chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. However, 1 in 3 people with these conditions do not benefit from these ...

Bringing mice to an enclosure and zapping their feet with tiny electric shocks, then bringing the mice back to the enclosure ...

Dangers come but dangers also go and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its fear ...

A new study in mice by MIT neuroscientists shows that the signal is the release of dopamine along a specific interregional ...