A new study reveals that an overgrowth of Candida albicans, a common gut fungus, may alter the brain’s dopamine reward circuitry and influence alcohol consumption.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The neurotransmitters dopamine (DA) and glutamate in the striatum play key roles in movement and cognition, and they are implicated in ...

The ventral striatum helps you decide whether to pay more for "next-day" delivery or choose "free, one-week" delivery to receive a package. Neuroimaging studies had previously failed, however, to ...

Neuroscientists have provided clear visual evidence that a region of the human brain known as the ventral striatum kicks in during decision-making to weigh the costs versus the benefits of making a ...

Researchers have pinpointed specific brain cells that control how animals react to social defeat, offering new insight into the biology of dominance and submission.

A recent study revealed that a long-term value memory maintained in the ventral striatum in the brain is a neural basis of our habitual seeking behavior. Researchers have been investigating how the ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that removal of cilia from the brain's striatum region impaired time perception and judgment, revealing possible new therapeutic ...

Image shows the two regions of the brain that were inactivated during the task – the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and the tail of the striatum (TS). Credit: Hernando Martinez Vergara ...

By Sage Rohrbach and Eunseo Lee A cross-section from a healthy brain and one with Huntington’s disease. The huntingtin protein causes nerve cells in the brain to break down and die. Jenna ...