Sentences with phrase «motivation circuits in the brain»

First, hunger does not increase the engagement of reward and motivation circuits in the brain.

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Prior research showed that the mPOA is important for social and reproductive behavior in all vertebrate species studied from fish to human, but it has been unclear whether this area drives social motivation through circuit connections with reward systems in the brain.

This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology & physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone - sensitive circuit in the brain that controls social motivation in female mice.

Kimberly Young, PhD, an NIH / NIDA Post-doctoral Fellow at Penn, and first author of the study explained that, «Drug reward and motivation is largely mediated by dopamine transmission in the brain's reward circuit — even drug «reminder cues» can cause dopamine release.

«The circuits in the brain that control movement also control motivation,» explained Kreitzer, who is the director of the neuroscience graduate program at UCSF.