A study from Emory University suggests that levodopa, a medication that increases dopamine levels in the brain, may help ...

Most people are familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting ...

A new wrist device for Parkinson’s may help reduce tremors. Learn about this breakthrough research. Read more.

The electrical wrist stimulation is now being trialled in people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) in a two-year study funded by ...

However, that experimental design was complex, required many sessions, and had rats receive many foot shock presentations. Moreover, the findings were descriptive. Here, we gave female and male Long ...

This study uncovers a specialized circuit in the striatum that encodes reward variance, offering new perspectives on learning and neurological disorders.

You may use exercise as a complementary treatment to your current ADHD regimen. It may boost your dopamine, the same hormone that stimulants affect, and improve attention span in children ...

Nicotine withdrawal induces behavioral symptoms such as tremors and shaking. Suppressing striatal cholinergic interneurons or administering the muscarinic antagonist Procyclidine significantly ...

Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) respond when an animal occupies a periodic lattice of ‘grid fields’ in the environment. The grids are organized in modules with spatial periods, or ...

We hypothesized that the two clinical groups would have a reduced activity in the ventral striatum when anticipating reward (compared to anticipation of a neutral outcome) and that striatal activation ...