Neurobiology of loneliness: a systematic review
Loneliness is a subjective experience, but neuroscientists define it as a distress that arrives from a discrepancy between perceived and desired socia...
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BrainPod is the podcast from the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, produced in association with Nature Publishing Group. Join us as we delve into the latest basic and clinical research that advance our understanding of the brain and behavior, featuring highlighted content from a top journal in fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, and pharmacology. For complete access to the original papers and reviews featured in this podcast, subscribe to Neuropsychopharmacology.
Medial orbitofrontal cortex dopamine D1/D2 receptors differentially modulate distinct forms of probabilistic decision-making
It’s known that dopamine transmission in the brain, particularly in the frontal lobes, can affect decision-making and can regulate choices when it com...
Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience
Nearly 25 years ago, a paper was published about addiction that transformed the field. The director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse at the ...
Big data in psychiatry: multiomics, neuroimaging, computational modeling, and digital phenotyping
The world of medicine has been changing rapidly due to the increasing use of ‘big data.’ And there’s been a major revolution in this approach in neuro...
Acute dose-dependent effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in a double-blind placebo-controlled study in healthy subjects
Interest is growing in the use of the psychedelic drug LSD for psychiatric research and even potentially for treatment. But placebo-controlled studies...
Big behavior: challenges and opportunities in a new era of deep behavior profiling
Scientists who study neuropsychiatric conditions and treatments often use rodent models to do so. From depression to anxiety to memory impairment and ...
Leveraging large genomic datasets to illuminate the pathobiology of autism spectrum disorders
The application of the study of genetics and the use of big data to identify patterns of inheritance as well as de novo mutations has had a dramatic i...
Pubertal adversity alters chromatin dynamics and stress circuitry in the pregnant brain
It’s understood in epidemiological research that women who experience trauma during puberty are at significantly higher risk for affective disorders s...
Social networking and mental health: looking beyond frequency of use and towards mechanisms of action
Over the past decades, there’s clearly been a dramatic increase in the amount of time people spend online using social networking sites. For instance,...
Distinct acute effects of LSD, MDMA, and D-amphetamine in healthy subjects
A number of drugs that are used recreationally are now being studied for their use in psychopharmacology. But while the ways in which these drugs are ...