Neuroscience
Regret is a gambler's curse, neuroscientists say
What goes through a gambler's mind after she's placed her bet?
Sep 13, 2018
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News tagged with brain reward
Psychology & Psychiatry
Brains of people with schizophrenia are less reactive to social rewards like smiling faces, study shows
In imaging studies, UCLA researchers found that the brains of people with schizophrenia are less sensitive to social rewards, such as the positive feelings that can come from social interactions with people, than they are ...
Sep 11, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How gambling distorts reality and hooks your brain
To call gambling a "game of chance" evokes fun, random luck and a sense of collective engagement. These playful connotations may be part of why almost 80 percent of American adults gamble at some point in their lifetime. ...
Aug 13, 2018
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Neuroscience
A gene required for addictive behavior
Cocaine can have a devastating effect on people. It directly stimulates the brain's reward center, and, more importantly, induces long-term changes to the reward circuitry that are responsible for addictive behaviors. Alban ...
Jul 12, 2018
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Medical research
Foods combining fats and carbohydrates more rewarding than foods with just fats or carbs
Researchers show that the reward center of the brain values foods high in both fat and carbohydrates—i.e., many processed foods—more than foods containing only fat or only carbs. A study of 206 adults, to appear June ...
Jun 14, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
People with family history of alcoholism release more dopamine in expectation of alcohol
People with a family history of alcohol use disorder (AUD) release more dopamine in the brain's main reward center in response to the expectation of alcohol than people diagnosed with the disorder, or healthy people without ...
May 23, 2018
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Neuroscience
How the brain responds to injustice
Punishing a wrongdoer may be more rewarding to the brain than supporting a victim. That is one suggestion of new research published in JNeurosci, which measured the brain activity of young men while they played a "justice ...
Feb 19, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Teens aren't just risk machines – there's a method to their madness
You know the conventional wisdom: Adolescents are impulsive by nature, like bombs ready to go off at the most minor trigger. Parents feel they must cross their fingers and hope no one lights the fuse that will lead to an ...
Feb 6, 2018
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Neuroscience
Researchers identify protein involved in cocaine addiction
Mount Sinai researchers have identified a protein produced by the immune system—granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF)—that could be responsible for the development of cocaine addiction.
Jan 16, 2018
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Neuroscience
How neurotechnologies impact risk appetite
Researchers from the Higher School of Economics have shown that by stimulating the frontal cortex, a person's financial risk appetite can be increased temporarily. Their article on the cognitive mechanisms of risky decision-making ...
Dec 29, 2017
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