Dopamine—a neurotransmitter responsible for influencing motivation, pleasure, mood and learning in the brain—has experienced ...

A Nature Medicine study links the activation of brain reward pathways to stronger antibody responses after hepatitis B vaccination in healthy adults.

Healthy adults trained to upregulate reward circuitry using neurofeedback showed stronger immune responses to HBV vaccination ...

Methamphetamine doesn't just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain—it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through similar mechanisms. Meth is ...

The latest revision to the World Health Organization’s compendium of global health, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), includes – for the first time – two types of addiction related ...