Researchers found that caffeine blocks alcohol’s ability to increase dopamine in brain reward areas, potentially reducing ...

Third, we are analyzing the mechanisms by which adenosine and dopamine receptors interact to influence psychostimulant-induced behaviors. Adenosine also plays important roles in regulating neuronal ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have recently uncovered insights into how specific brain pathways influence cocaine addiction. The study, published in Neuropharmacology, found that ...

These newly discovered pathways connect to dopamine-producing neurons in the ... striosomal neuron exerts the opposite effect and can signal reward. The striosomes can thus both up- or down ...

These newly discovered pathways connect to dopamine-producing neurons in the brain — one stimulates dopamine release ... Now they show unexpectedly that another type of striosomal neuron exerts the ...

Researchers uncover a link between impaired glutathione–ascorbate metabolism and early dopamine increases in Huntington's ...