Every day, our brain makes thousands of decisions, big and small. Any of these decisions - from the least consequential such ...

Researchers have identified two distinct groups of neurons that help the brain evaluate risk and reward in decision-making.

Research in mice identifies brain circuitry that supports certain reward-based decisions.

Scientists studied the correlation between groove response and people with musical anhedonia - those who take little or no ...

Striatal dopamine (DA) release regulates reward-related learning and behavioural activation and is believed to consist of a short-lived phasic and continuous tonic component. Here, we build a ...

Love happens in the brain, where hormonal releases and brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are released.

People with musical anhedonia do not enjoy music but still feel the urge to move. Movement itself may generate pleasure.

The pleasurable urge to move to music -- to groove -- appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, according to a new article. That groove response is so ...

A new study finds that the urge to move to music—known as groove—is a distinct physiological response, separate from musical ...