Narcissistic behavior thrives in environments where visibility matters more than contribution. If you’re constantly talking ...

A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain reward functions. By combining several brain imaging methods, the research ...

Neuroscientists are increasingly finding that when you encounter a familiar reward, your body begins to gear up for action ...

Researchers discover that the phosphorylation of a newly identified protein kinase substrate downstream of the dopamine signaling pathway regulates the brain reward behavior. The nucleus accumbens, ...

People who are depressed very often show reduced interest in experiencing or obtaining pleasure, a symptom called anhedonia that research has traced to dysfunction in the brain’s reward system. In ...

Reinforcement learning frames trading as a sequential decision-making problem, where an agent observes market conditions, ...