Many behaviors are affected by rewards, undergoing long-term changes when rewards are different than predicted but remaining unchanged when rewards occur exactly as predicted. The discrepancy ...

Of course, the headlines mostly get it wrong. Dopamine's role in shaping behavior goes way beyond simple concepts like "pleasure" or even "reward". And the fact that it takes weeks or months for ...

And dessert? A reward after a difficult task. “Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved in the reward response to pleasant experiences and pleasant stimuli,” neuroscience, psychopharmacology ...