Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the ...

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Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content.

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No matter what you've heard, you don't love anything with all of your heart. You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas ...

Findings suggest that better understanding of how sex hormones interact with chronic pain could lead to new approaches to addressing the opioid epidemic.

When you're feeling nostalgic, activity occurs in the hippocampus, ventral striatum, and substantial nigra-ventral tegmental area of the brain, according to a medically-reviewed report from WebMD.