The concept of dopamine fasting has surged in popularity, particularly in high-performance environments like Silicon Valley. Proponents claim that temporarily abstaining from pleasurable activities ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through ...

However, the opioid pathway, a heavily studied physiologic pathway inextricably intertwined with behaviour and reward, rarely receives attention within psychiatric practice. Although the opioid system ...