Functional MRI studies have shown that people with compulsive porn use display altered activity in brain regions involved in reward processing, such as the ventral striatum and amygdala.

AMT-130 is a one-time, investigational gene therapy that is administered through magnetic resonance imaging-guided, convection-enhanced stereotactic neurosurgical delivery into the striatum.

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Rigid thinkers tend to have lower levels of dopamine in their prefrontal cortex and higher levels of dopamine in their striatum, a key midbrain structure in our reward system that controls our ...

The team linked the behavioral difficulties to dramatic functional transformations in the dorsomedial striatum, a part of the brain critical for decision-making. The alcohol had damaged neural ...

In individuals with a shopping problem, these images activated the dopamine reward system in the striatum — the same system implicated in drug addiction. “They get thrilled when you show them ...

One study found that when people received a lot of likes on social media, their ventral striatum lit up—the same brain region linked to rewards like food and money. That means every time we get ...

Similarly, six months after injecting preformed fibrils of α-synuclein (PFF) into mouse striatum, animals overexpressing FAM171A2 accumulated more phosphorylated α-synuclein in the striatum and the ...

Hunger is an ancestral and evolutionary survival instinct; its importance is evident in the complex and redundant pathways involving all five senses that regulate it. 1,2 Historically, when humans ...

The lovely Abutilon Indicum has yellow blossoms and is grown for its medicinal properties. Its leaves have a bitter and barely pungent flavour. Kanghi is another name for it. Additionally ...

Researchers discover crucial role of brain's striatum cilia in time perception. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 11 / 221130151535.htm ...

Our team has studied the role of a certain reward region in the brain, the ventral striatum, in relation to risk-taking behavior, often using an online gambling task in which participants could ...