Let’s begin with the part most people don’t realize: pain and pleasure aren’t opposites. In fact, they share a surprising amount of brain real estate. When the body senses pain, the brain responds ...

Just looking at it, you wouldn’t suspect the house to be anything but normal. It’s large and white; it’s a home dedicated to “clean and sober living,” and it’s located in a rural area of Eugene. Yet ...

In the first pages of her book Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist working at Stanford University, tells the story of a patient who masturbated for hours a day using a machine he ...

Researchers have revealed how the brain processes emotions related to sustained pain and pleasure. A team of researchers led by LEE Soo Ahn and WOO Choong-Wan at the Center for Neuroscience Imaging ...

Be it sugar, social media or sex, the response in our brain is the same: It produces the "feel-good" neurochemical called dopamine, which brings on feelings of pleasure and motivation. "It may be even ...

In my last post, inspired by the Netflix documentary about Phil Stutz, author of The Tools, I wrote about how harnessing attention on new ways of “being," (being your most social self), rather than ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have zeroed in on the ventral pallidum (VP), an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how VP neurons influence animals' ...

In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a fulfilling and satisfying sexual life can often take a backseat. For men seeking to boost their confidence and enhance their sexual performance, nutritional ...

The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor ...