The new TikTok trend of creating a dopamine menu has some validity to it. It advises us to prepare for a future bad mood, bad ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one ...

potentially addictive things that might trigger dopamine release, in an effort to reset the mind — is that it puts too much ...

Yes, I get a huge sense of satisfaction - and release of dopamine - when I hand in a big project. But that's not an easy or achievable task I can do in moments of sadness. Instead, I added things ...

I'm around 20 hours into Path of Exile 2 and all my gear sucks. I'm wearing clothes even a zombie would refuse to wear with ...

While dopamine fuels our motivation and sense of pleasure, it can also lead us to crave more of the activities that trigger its release. But is it really possible to be addicted to dopamine?

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...