Why does stress trigger drinking? A new study identifies a direct brain circuit between stress centers and habit-forming regions.

Image shows the two regions of the brain that were inactivated during the task – the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and the tail of the striatum (TS). Credit: Hernando Martinez Vergara ...

Using a novel system, researchers found that a part of the basal ganglia called the striatum is not involved in action selection as previously thought. Instead, the striatum and the motor cortex work ...

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...