All Articles Tagged As: ventral striatum
Until now, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was related to alterations in the brain affecting attention and cognitive processes. Researchers at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital for the first time have discovered anomalies in the brain's reward system related to the neural circuits of motivation and gratification.
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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.
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Scientists have identified a key region of the brain which encourages us to be adventurous
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The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate
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Brain scanning experiment shows how much we take others' earnings as a measure of our success
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