Have you ever felt stressed so you reach for a quick treat-maybe a handful of your kids' gummy bears or a bag of salty potato chips-just to try to feel better? We've all been there. But it turns out ...

These foods in your daily diet can help improve mood enhance motivation and support mental well being naturally by maintaining healthy dopamine levels in the brain.

You know that moment. You’ve just eaten a perfectly satisfying meal, sworn off junk food for the millionth time, and then BAM—suddenly you’re daydreaming about chocolate cake or plotting a midnight ...

There’s much for readers to digest in “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight” to understand dieting, food addictions, and GLP-1 weight loss medications. Former ...

A previously overlooked dopamine-producing brain circuit drives hedonic eating, or eating for pleasure, according to a new study in mice. The findings offer insights into how GLP-1 agonist drugs like ...

Delicious and extremely palatable food can increase the tendency of hedonic eating, where one consumes food for the sole purpose of deriving pleasure instead of the body's energy needs. Hedonic eating ...