A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience provides neural evidence regarding how environmental cues can bias human ...

Positive thinking boosts vaccine effectiveness, study finds - Findings may shed more light on the biological process behind ...

In a first-of-its-kind human trial, researchers have demonstrated that consciously activating the brain’s reward system (when ...

Neuroscientists are increasingly finding that when you encounter a familiar reward, your body begins to gear up for action ...

The areas of the brain that process reward are activated when we make choices that make other people happy, as well as ourselves, a new study has found. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University ...

Can positive anticipation that activates the brain’s reward system strengthen the body’s immune defenses? A new study by Tel Aviv University, the Technion, and Tel Aviv Medical Center (Ichilov), ...

Employers who have introduced team-based rewards systems to foster creativity, collaboration, productivity and sales may want to look again at a system that new research shows can create an unintended ...

The study suggests that activating the brain’s reward system before vaccination can enhance antibody production.

Rewards-based systems work to bring people into an online health management program, but they don't do much to encourage sustained engagement, according to a study recently published in the Journal of ...

A small group of people experience no pleasure from music despite normal hearing and intact emotions. Brain imaging reveals ...

While rewards or incentives may be successful in encouraging patients to enroll in online health management programs, they may not be enough to keep patients engaged in the program, according to a new ...

The subset of people who don't experience joy or derive pleasure from music have "musical anhedonia" and it's happening in ...