In the first pages of her book Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist working at Stanford University, tells the story of a patient who masturbated for hours a day using a machine he ...

Human beings are programmed to approach pleasure and avoid pain. It's an instinct that dates back millions of years, to a time when people needed to actively seek food, clothing and shelter every day, ...

Psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke's new book, 'Dopamine Nation,' explores the brain's connection between pleasure and pain. It also helps explain addictions — not just to drugs and alcohol, but also to ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...

This week, we continue our month-long Pride Around The World mini-series, where we’ll be taking a look at movies from different countries and examining their portrayals of queerness and how they ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...