A study on rats found that exposure to perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) altered gene expression in the nucleus accumbens, ...

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A landmark trial found social media companies liable for designing addictive products. Nicola J Kalk and Ben Carter look at ...

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The "new school" of psychology argues that labeling—such as "neurodivergent" or "sensory sensitive"—is an act of progress ...

A study published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience provides evidence that the brain’s reward system ...

Can training your brain's reward circuits strengthen your immune response to vaccination? A new randomised controlled trial ...

Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, the authors map transcriptional changes in the rat ventral tegmental area following chronic inflammatory pain and acute morphine exposure. Notably, their ...

According to our current understanding of the universe, quarks are fundamental, point-like particles: basic building blocks ...

This valuable work identifies a subpopulation of neurons in the larval zebrafish pallium that responds differentially to varying threat levels, potentially mediating the categorization of negative ...