The study suggests that activating the brain’s reward system before vaccination can enhance antibody production.

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

Healthy adults trained to upregulate reward circuitry using neurofeedback showed stronger immune responses to HBV vaccination. Read more.

The team’s research provides compelling evidence for the brain’s influence on physiology. A deeper understanding of this mind ...

Some people bounce back from trauma, but others get caught in depressive loops that sap the joy from their lives. Researchers at UCSF find a brain signature of resilience in mice that suggests a new ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to do it themselves using the power of brain scans and positive thinking, ...

I was a third-year medical student at Northwestern on my ICU rotation the first time I saw a dopamine drip. The patient was pale and motionless, his blood pressure dropping by the minute despite large ...

People who are depressed very often show reduced interest in experiencing or obtaining pleasure, a symptom called anhedonia that research has traced to dysfunction in the brain’s reward system. In ...

Stressful study sessions help us pass exams, but curiosity promotes long-term understanding and information retention. In A ...

A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain reward functions. By combining several brain imaging methods, the research ...