Dopamine is a neurotransmitter often associated with pleasure and reward. It has indeed been found to play an important role in adapting us to new situations. A recent study explains how that works, ...

It’s the same thing with sugar. Ultraprocessed foods cause dopamine release, and the reward pathway leads to the same kinds of behaviors as when people get addicted to drugs and alcohol. There’s a ...

Dopamine is one of the most extensively studied chemical messengers in the human brain, and yet scientists are still figuring out how it works to accomplish so much. For years, the classic view ...

There is too much of a good thing. You may be dealing with too much dopamine, making it hard to enjoy simple things. A fast may help, according to a psychiatrist.

Ultimately, dopamine release in the striatum is both spatially and temporally discrete – which makes it far more complex signaling mechanism than we've previously understood it to be.

This short-range activation elicited a rapid neural response. B roader dopamine release, meanwhile, is widespread and elicits a slower response.

CNN: What can we do to address dopamine deficit? Lembke: What I recommend is a 30-day abstinence trial, colloquially called a “dopamine fast,” from the drug of choice.