Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it ...

The subset of people who don't experience joy or derive pleasure from music have "musical anhedonia" and it's happening in ...

Some people bounce back from trauma, but others get caught in depressive loops that sap the joy from their lives. Researchers at UCSF find a brain signature of resilience in mice that suggests a new ...

Is addiction a choice or a disease? A psychiatrist explains how repeated substance use changes brain reward and ...

A small group of people experience no pleasure from music despite normal hearing and intact emotions. Brain imaging reveals ...

People who are depressed very often show reduced interest in experiencing or obtaining pleasure, a symptom called anhedonia that research has traced to dysfunction in the brain’s reward system. In ...

The areas of the brain that process reward are activated when we make choices that make other people happy, as well as ourselves, a new study has found. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University ...

A recent study published in Computers in Human Behavior suggests that individuals who excessively use their smartphones ...

In our day-to-day lives, we're constantly making a slew of decisions, from immediate matters to prospects on the far horizon. But the evolutionary nuts-and-bolts of how our brains weigh these numerous ...