Researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation have shed light on the puzzling relationship between dopamine and rest tremor in ...
From an evolutionary standpoint, dopamine rewards you when you’re doing things necessary for survival, such as eating and ...
Psychologists explain the evolutionary role of dopamine, the truth about dopamine detoxes and how you can really put an end ...
What’s unique about GLP-1s—a.k.a. Ozempic, Monjauro, Wegovy, and Zepbound, among others—is that they target hormones, which ...
Study links prenatal THC exposure to increased opioid addiction risk in later life, raising concerns for cannabis use during ...
Evidence has been growing to suggest that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, poses risks to the developing fetus by impacting brain development. Now a new ...
With the increased legalization of recreational cannabis, as many as 1 in 5 pregnant women in the U.S. are now using the drug ...
This illustration shows that male animals exposed to THC in the womb experience a greater surge in the “reward-seeking” brain chemical dopamine when exposed to opioid drugs as adolescents compared to ...
In an essay for 'Women's Health,' Dr. Nora Volkow discusses the future of semaglutide weight-loss meds, and their potential ...
Researchers found that caffeine blocks alcohol’s ability to increase dopamine in brain reward areas, potentially reducing ...