Zuoxin Wang (left), professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Mohamed Kabbaj (right), professor of ...

Philadelphia, August 1, 2025 – Novel imaging research indicates that young adults with a higher genetic risk for depression showed less brain activity in several areas when responding to rewards and ...

A new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging suggests that stress experienced during basic combat training may dampen the brain’s ability to respond to ...

Rutgers researchers have used neuroimaging to demonstrate that cocaine addiction alters the brain's system for evaluating how rewarding various outcomes associated ...

Novel research shows that a reduced neural response to receiving rewards in teens predicts the first onset of depression, but not anxiety or suicidality. This is independent of pre-existing depressive ...

A new study on mice reveals that the brain’s response to rewards is temporarily suppressed after the first dose of citalopram, an antidepressant, but gradually returns with continued use. The findings ...

A new study found a distinct relationship between sleep duration, social media usage, and brain activation across brain regions that are key for executive control and reward processing. A new study to ...