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

Once consumed, the drug delivers a powerful stimulus to the nucleus accumbens, a cluster of nerve cells below the cerebral cortex, which responds quickly by releasing a flood of dopamine.

Some populations behave really differently: classically, dopamine incentivizes and makes animals work harder for reward…but other people have shown that some dopamine neurons that project to a ...

One brain region particularly linked to anhedonia is the nucleus accumbens, which plays a critical role in experiencing pleasure and learning associations with pleasant stimuli. An interplay ...

There are projections from hypothalamic nuclei to the prefrontal cortex, involved in conditioned taste aversion, as well as reward centers, such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens. Leptin is ...

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 ...