“I was talking with my colleagues at a conference 10 years ago and I just casually said that everyone loves music,” recalls Josep Marco Pallarés, a neuroscientist at the University of Barcelona. But ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a brain circuit that can drive repetitive and compulsive behaviors in mice, even when natural rewards such as food or social contact are ...

Addiction decreases the brain’s ability to experience natural, healthy pleasure, driving increased cravings and compulsive substance use. But can this brain deficit be healed? New research from my lab ...

Why do so many people relapse after quitting cocaine? A new study from The Hebrew University reveals that a specific "anti-reward" brain circuit becomes hyperactive during withdrawal—driving ...

Well here's a fun opportunity for some cognitive variability testing! Like I said, like a blind man wearing oven mitts describing an elephant, but here goes. Frisson, the French word for shivering or ...