Decreased ventral striatum activity to natural social incentives were associated with social motivation and pleasure deficits even when controlling for other symptoms, such as diminished expressivity.

Love happens in the brain, where hormonal releases and brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are released.

People with musical anhedonia do not enjoy music but still feel the urge to move. Movement itself may generate pleasure.

The ventral striatum (VSt) is thought to be involved in the vigor of motivated behavior and is suggested to be a limbic-motor interface between limbic areas involved in motivational processes and ...

The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we ...

Why music makes us move, even when we don’t like it If you hate ABBA, but you can't help tapping your foot along to “Dancing Queen,” rest assured, it's a perfectly normal reaction. Music makes us move ...

The pleasurable urge to move to music -- to groove -- appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, according to a new article. That groove response is so ...

A new study finds that the urge to move to music—known as groove—is a distinct physiological response, separate from musical ...

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Improving this via cognitive training in mild patients represents an important avenue of non-pharmacological treatment in PD. A different set of cognitive functions are mediated by the ventral ...