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A Harvard team studying mice found that the brain processes isolation and loneliness like hunger and thirst, highlighting the ...

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The researchers then used a sophisticated neuroscience technique called fiber photometry to assess how nutrients activate dopamine neurons within the ventral tegmental area, or VTA, a brain region ...

Untangling the functional organisation of a brain region crucial for memory and learning helps reveal how individual differences are linked to variations in recall ability, aging and dopamine receptor ...