Your Brain in Love: Part 5 – No Room for Romance? Try Music Instead… but not Junk Food

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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 [...]

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Posted February 11, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies

Junk Food and Addiction – How Cheesecake and Bacon are Like Heroin and Cocaine

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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 [...]

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Posted April 26, 2010 by Peter Delahunt under Brain plasticity, Neuroscience, Research studies