Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The discovery turns a century-old view of dopamine on its head and could ...

Dopamine is one of the most extensively studied chemical messengers in the human brain, and yet scientists are still figuring out how it works to accomplish so much. For years, the classic view has ...

New research by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder aims to get to the bottom of why, as the saying goes, you get ...

A couple of years ago, Jan Haavik was at a routine meeting of a research group that connects scientists studying attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with people who live with the condition ...

Astrocytes use the MEGF10 receptor to prune synapses in the striatum, a process essential for dopamine-driven motor learning.

For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s movement signal. A wave of new research is now overturning that picture, ...

As a teenager in the early 1980s, I smoked a ton of marijuana and spent most of my early high school years stoned out of my mind. It was a very troubling time for me. During my adolescence, I ...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter — a chemical made in your brain. It carries messages to your nerve cells. Dopamine is also a hormone made in your adrenal glands that gets released into your bloodstream ...

In the health world, there’s a ton of buzz around dopamine—how to spike it, protect it, and avoid tanking your levels. But what exactly is dopamine? Simply put, it’s a chemical messenger, or ...

LOS ANGELES — Maybe you'd like to spend time on hobbies or hang out with friends, but nothing feels as exciting and engaging as it used to –– so you just squander another hour on social media. Your ...