All Articles Tagged As: ventral striatum

Brain switch clues to drug addiction (7/21/2008)

In the quest to find the biological route of drug addiction, research at Cambridge University is revealing what makes some people more vulnerable than others. ...> Full Article

Neuroscientists discover a sense of adventure (6/26/2008)

Scientists have identified a key region of the brain which encourages us to be adventurous ...> Full Article

Human brain appears 'hard-wired' for hierarchy (4/26/2008)

Scans hint at why it can be unhealthy even at the top ...> Full Article

Brain reacts to fairness as it does to money and chocolate, study shows (4/23/2008)

The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate ...> Full Article

Money motivates - especially when your colleague gets less (12/15/2007)

Brain scanning experiment shows how much we take others' earnings as a measure of our success ...> Full Article