After seasons of soft neutrals and barely-there beauty, colour is making a loud and joyful comeback. Say hello to dopamine ...

Sushma Subramanian is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. We had gut remodeled our house, and there was still no good place to put our ...

You own the most valuable real estate in the world. Deep inside your brain is the nucleus accumbens, a pea-sized bundle of neurons. When you do or anticipate something rewarding, dopamine is released ...

Mr. Auchincloss, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts’s Fourth Congressional District. You own the most valuable real estate in the world. Deep inside your brain is the nucleus accumbens, a pea-size ...

Department of Translational Neuroscience, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, United States ...

A new study published in Nature Communications provides evidence that the brain chemical dopamine plays a sophisticated, dual role in how we learn, influencing both our fast, effortful thinking and ...

Running errands is boring, but running errands with the promise of getting a strawberry iced matcha on the way? Suddenly, it doesn’t sound so bad. It not only makes the experience more fun while it’s ...

In a world in which our dopamine is often depleted or out of whack, we’d be well advised to seek natural, easy ways to increase it. After all, dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role ...

Dreading a task at the end of a long week? There may be a way to trick your brain into seeing that chore as a reward. “Dopamine anchoring” is the latest psychology hack making the rounds on social ...

Dopamine is a crucial chemical messenger in the brain, playing a major role in regulating mood, motivation and movement. It impacts how you experience pleasure, stay focused, and control physical ...

Dreading a task at the end of a long week? There may be a way to trick your brain into seeing that chore as a reward. "Dopamine anchoring" is the latest psychology hack making the rounds on social ...

Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did By Bronwyn Thompson July 10, 2025 Dopamine isn't "all or nothing" but precisely dealt out to different parts of the brain ...