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 ...

The T.H.R.E.A.D. System recognizes that when we are faced with the unknown, the human brain is wired to perceive threat before it recognizes opportunity. Effective and coherent leadership helps to ...

The nucleus accumbens is a tiny element of the human brain triggered when we experience something enjoyable, and used to help us learn behaviors that lead to rewards. A new study has shown for the ...

Certain neural structures, called the reward system, are critically involved mediating the effects of reinforcement. A reward is an appetitive stimulus given to a human or some other animal to alter ...