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Behavior tests for anxiety and depression signs followed, alongside brain chemistry sampling in the nucleus accumbens to track dopamine. Treatment with a three-molecule mix produced the largest share ...

A new brain imaging study led by researchers in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health in the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) at Stony Brook University, and published in JAMA Network ...

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers tracked thousands of neural connections to identify 28 distinct types of dopamine neurons ...

We are facing an epidemic of historic levels in the United States. Reported rates of anxiety and depression are skyrocketing, ...

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New research in mice suggests how short-term sleep deprivation can affect dopamine, which regulates sleep and mood. Experts in the field say that while the research is good, more work needs to be done ...