A new imaging study showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the brain's opioid system.

Music can evoke intense pleasure, sometimes experienced physically as pleasant "chills." While the effect of music on ...

Parkinson’s is a progressive neurological condition driven by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons, which causes tremors, ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Researchers studying people’s brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on ...

New research reveals that serotonin plays a key role in how the brain predicts future rewards, shedding light on its puzzling activity in response to both pleasure and pain.