Scientists have long known that dopamine helps the brain learn from rewards, but a new computational model shows how for people with schizophrenia this learning system can break down and ...

If you've been lacking the motivation to clean your house, get a workout in or just can't get out of bed, it could be that your serotonin and dopamine levels are out of whack. When you're deficient in ...

Scientists have known for many years that dopamine plays an important role in how the brain learns from rewards. Dopamine is ...

Help your brain help you boost your happy hormones. To explain exactly how these "happiness" chemicals work, I spoke to Loretta Breuning, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of . Below ...

Are you the kind of person who is always “on,” constantly driven to achieve? Or are you more of a slacker type, less motivated by the promise of material reward? The difference may lie in the ...

For a long time we’ve been focusing on dopamine detoxes, but do we need more, not less, of the d-word? And could a dopamine defecit be the real culprit behind treatment-resistant depression, asks Emma ...