Reward Center, a Little Rock duo now based in New York, has this peculiar and alluring way of smashing together acoustic and electronic textures. Their new album, “Bedroom,” which came out on Friday, ...

A brain reward center, the striatum, may be directly affected by inflammation and that striatal change is related to the emergence of illness behaviors, scientists report. A new study by Neil Harrison ...

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on ...

The reward center of the brain is much more attuned to the pleasurable effects of alcohol when estrogen levels are elevated, an effect that may underlie the development of addiction in women, ...