Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in these reward-related processes is well-established, the cellular and neural ...

As we navigate our daily lives, our choices are influenced by the information we gather. For example, how rewarding will it be to read this article, and is it worth the time and energy? How our brains ...

A new study maps the hippocampal-prefrontal brain circuit linking memory loss to apathy in limbic encephalitis.

Motivation is less fragile than people think. More often, what causes it to fail is the result of years of gradual erosion caused by a very specific habit.

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...

Working ‘out of hours’, or outside of a nontraditional 9-5 schedule, and checking in throughout the day and over weekends can harm worker motivation. The corresponding research was published in ...

A new study brings together two schools of thought on the function of the neurotransmitter dopamine: one saying that dopamine provides a learning signal, the other saying that dopamine drives ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...