Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Does all this romantic mumbo-jumbo make you feel a little queasy? I have good news: a recent study showed that listening [...]
Tags: brain, dopamine, junk food, love, MRI, music
Posted February 11, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Lots of relationship experts suggest that couples who have been together through the ages can keep the romance alive with regular [...]
Tags: date night, dopamine, long term love, love, marriage, norepinephrine
Posted February 9, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Ever fallen madly in love? Researcher Helen Fisher has spent her academic life trying to figure out what’s going on in [...]
Tags: brain, caudate nucleus, dopamine, Helen Fisher, love, neuroscience of love, romance
Posted February 7, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps produce a reward response in the brain. This response kicks into action when we do something pleasurable- like eating highly palatable food. It is known that there is a reduction in this reward response in obese people. However, it is unclear whether the reduction in reward precedes obesity and [...]
Tags: addiction, cocaine, compulsive eating, dopamine, drugs, heroin, junk food, lifestyle, obesity, paul johnson, paul kenny, scientific studies
Posted April 26, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Brain plasticity, Neuroscience, Research studies
Last week, David Rock wrote a fantastic article called “(Not So Great) Expectations: Use Them or Be Used By Them”. The article cites research from Wolfram Schultz (who serves as a science advisor to Posit Science) on how expectations affect dopamine levels in the brain, which in turn affects happiness. The gist of it goes [...]
Tags: Barbara Frederickson, David Rock, dopamine, happiness, rewards, Wolfram Schultz
Posted December 2, 2009 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Research studies
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