Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

Researchers used fruit flies to uncover genes that regulate both dopamine levels and sleep. By screening pigmentation-related ...

Dopamine plays a more complex and precise role in brain function than previously thought: it not only enhances neural ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to ...

A combination of two drugs- one for smoking cessation and another for depression- appear to work synergistically to treat alcohol use disorder. The corresponding study was published in The Lancet ...

If you've been lacking the motivation to clean your house, get a workout in or just can't get out of bed, it could be that your serotonin and dopamine levels are out of whack. When you're deficient in ...

Christopher Bergland crossing the finish line of the Triple Ironman (7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike, 78.6-mile run) in 38 hours and 46 minutes. Tonic levels of dopamine are required to achieve most ...