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 has ...

A couple of years ago, Jan Haavik was at a routine meeting of a research group that connects scientists studying attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with people who live with the condition ...

A Boston University-led research team has discovered a dopamine signal in the brain that helps determine whether you are moving toward or away from a goal, potentially shedding new light on how the ...

As a teenager in the early 1980s, I smoked a ton of marijuana and spent most of my early high school years stoned out of my mind. It was a very troubling time for me. During my adolescence, I ...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter — a chemical made in your brain. It carries messages to your nerve cells. Dopamine is also a hormone made in your adrenal glands that gets released into your bloodstream ...

A new study from Stanford Medicine has found a promising way to protect brain cells in a form of Parkinson’s disease linked ...

Dopamine is a hormone and neurotransmitter in the brain involved in mood, attention, reward and motivation. Mary Katherine Wynn/Dreamstime/TNS ROCHESTER, Minn. — You likely are accustomed to ...

Scientists are working hard to find better ways to treat Parkinson’s disease, a condition that slowly damages the brain and ...

A signaling pathway best known for shaping the brain before birth also helps govern how adults learn, adapt, and persist in ...