Reward pathway Archives - Knowing Neurons

Mariella Careaga February 13, 2023 Amygdala, Emotion, Evolution, fMRI, Love, PET, Prefrontal Cortex, Reward, Reward pathway, Valentine’s Day

This Is Your Brain In Love

By Mariella Careaga Just like any other emotion, love has more to do with the brain than you might think. Among all emotions, love seems to have a special place… Read More

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Joel Frohlich October 26, 2016June 30, 2017 2016, Circuit, Cute, Cuteness, Dopamine, fMRI, Kringelbach, MRI, Nucleus accumbens, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Reward, Reward pathway

The Mighty and the Weak: How Science Explains Cuteness

Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed. Morten L. Kringelbach and his colleagues at the University of Oxford recently described cuteness as ‘one… Read More

Neuro News Movement

knowingneurons April 13, 2016March 5, 2017 2016, Aggregates, Block, Bradykinesia, Brain, Cell, Cell death, Chaperone, Clusters, Disease, Disorder, Dopamine, Drug, Exercise, Inhibit, Lester, Misfolded, Movement, Neuroscience, News, Nicotine, Nigrostriatal pathway, Parkinson's Disease, PD, Protection, Protein, Protein folding, Reward pathway, Smoking, Smoking-Relevant Nicotine Concentration Attenuates the Unfolded Protein Response in Dopaminergic Neurons, Srinivasan, Tunycamycin

The Strange Relationship between Nicotine and Parkinson’s Disease

According to the World Health Organization, smoking is responsible for approximately 6 million deaths in the world every year or one fatality every six seconds. 71% of all lung cancers… Read More