Schulz et al. show that anhedonia in depression, as measured by a scale often equated with loss of pleasure, reflects reduced anticipation of food rewards rather than impaired enjoyment itself. Linkin...

Fish may possess the ability to perceive where another being’s attention is focused. And they don’t like when it’s focused on them or on their children

Nature Reviews Psychology - Understanding the link between anhedonia and reward processing in adolescence can enhance mental health interventions specifically for young people. In this Review, Ma...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure positive feelings — and it’s a challenge.

Anhedonia emerges in adolescence, has putative substrates in neural reward and dopamine systems, and is a hallmark of poor course in depression. Psychoneuroimmunology models suggest altered immune and...

A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.

Rationale: Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, such as semaglutide, are increasingly utilized in clinical practice due to their efficacy in promoting sustained weight loss following chr...

Background Depression and social anxiety are frequently co-occurring conditions that significantly impact young people. Anhedonia may be important to consider in early interventions for these condit...

A small study helps explain why some people taking Wegovy and similar weight-loss drugs cut back on alcohol, offering insight into potential new addiction therapies

Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Digital survey tools have all but replaced paper and pen in the psychological sciences, and consequently new forms of potentially useful research paradata are now routinely gathered. A particularly co...

Slides “Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysis” (Wuppertal 2025) “Thinking more clearly about correlation and causation with causal graphs” (Wuppertal 2025, topics: …

Any increase in alcohol use is associated with an increase in risk of illness and mortality and consequences of chronic alcohol use include cancer, hypertension, heart and liver disease, and Alcohol U...

"This is not just an attack on the LGBTQ community — it is a blow to the integrity of science and the health of every American," a Harvard Medical School associate professor studying the mental…

Altered food liking in depression is driven by macronutrient composition - Volume 55

Elon Musk schrieb vor kurzem auf dem sozialen Netzwerk X: „Fast 80% der Asylbewerber machten Urlaub in ihren Heimatländern.“ Joe Lonsdale, Mitgründer von Palantir Technologies, kommentierte: „Millione...

How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?  The Department of Neuroscience includes several research groups working on different aspects of nervous system function, both under normal